Word: repairing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stations also conducted a profitable con game. When an unsuspecting motorist stopped to have his oil checked, the attendant would disable the car by tinkering with the generator or pouring water in the crankcase oil, then suggest that the customer move his crippled vehicle to a nearby garage for repair. Fittingly enough, the repair shop was called "Billy Swindel...
There is some question as to where tomorrow's meet will be held. The Harvard track is in poor repair and probably will not be ready by tomorrow. In that event, the meet will be shifted to B.C.'s tartan surface track...
...accidents. I am sure that many of you are acutely and embarrassingly aware of this problem. Some of you probably know without reading the study of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety that a collision at five miles per hour in a Chevy Impala can cost almost $200 to repair. This is because General Motors, and the other auto manufacturers, are more concerned with ornamentation than low repair costs...
...tenant spokesmen participated in sessions of the Medical School's Community Relations Committee, which Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Faculty of Medicine, had set up to "guide" University decision-making with respect to institutional expansion in Roxbury. This committee approved and reiterated proposals that Harvard adequately maintain and repair safety hazards in tenants' apartments, and that it immediately rent other vacant homes in the area to prevent an already fragmented res?den??l community from failing hopelessly apart?. Yet it was not until last month-eight months after the recommendation-that Harvard completed a safety survey of its medical...
...townspeople settled down to choosing their three-member board of selectmen and debating a $117,280 town budget. They approved $9,000 for a new school bus and $100 for steel roofing to cover the shed that houses salt to spread on winter roads. But no, they would not repair a section of road leading to the house of the community's second-largest taxpayer. An appropriation for other winter road maintenance was passed, however, because a housewife exclaimed: "I got stuck twice and couldn't get the old man to work...