Word: repairing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Union men argue, equally correctly, that it would take a big wage boost just to repair the damage that inflation and recession have done to their pay envelopes. Despite rising wage rates, the loss of overtime and reductions in regular working hours cut the average weekly pay of G.M. workers to $175 in the first quarter, down from $184.60 last year. On top of that, inflation made each dollar worth less...
...within his own organization: to hire more of the poor, to stop the pollution that his company produces, to manufacture safer and more reliable products. Beyond that, he is being asked to reach more broadly into the community: to use his company's talent, capital and organizational skill to repair the rattles in the nation's social machinery...
...Syria continued to refuse to let engineers repair the Trans-Arabian pipeline, which was accidentally broken seven weeks ago by a bulldozer. By denying entry to repair crews, the revolutionary Syrian government gains status among Arab extremists, while conservative Saudi Arabia, where the line originates, loses up to $500,000 a day. The line's owner, Arabian-American Oil Co. (Aramco), is seeking to charter tankers to move the crude...
Gardner laudably appeals for "immediate and far-reaching moves" to save the environment, but he follows this with a call for "sustained economic growth." Since said growth is largely responsible for the plunder of natural resources, this is like trying to repair, maintain, and fuel a car while pressing the accelerator to the floor. Good ecology is incompatible with ancient economic dogmas that wealth is something measured in beer cans per consumer...
...disaster struck, ordered $16 million set aside for relief and reconstruction. A dozen other countries rushed aid-including the U.S., which sent the helicopter carrier Guam, despite Washington's displeasure with Velasco for his seizure of a U.S.-owned oil company. It will take vast sums to repair the effects of a catastrophe that has left 800,000 homeless in a nation of 13 million. Said one official, who estimated the losses at $250 million: "It will probably take us ten to 15 years to repair the damage...