Word: repairing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reporters, the private contractors and their see-no-evil federal supervisors have admitted to shocking practices and promised to clean up after their predecessors. That effort could cost as much as $100 billion and take 20 to 30 years. Unwilling to spend money to keep their aging equipment in repair or to plan for orderly replacements, they have allowed their network of plants to become so disabled as to threaten the very reason for their creation: the maintenance of a credible nuclear deterrent...
...thinking of hiring a 24-hour crew to repair the damage," he said. "We'll be back...
...through the room across the hall by sticking your head out the window and sliding your legs around the partition. My roommates left by that way but I stuck around in the room to wait for the locksmith to show up and repair the lock," said Balai...
...Public-housing developments like St. Louis' Cochran Gardens and the Montgomery County, Md., program demonstrate that well-maintained, well-managed projects can be successes and not eyesores or breeding grounds for crime. Yet about 70,000 of the country's 1.3 million units are vacant: uninhabitable while awaiting repair or occupied by squatters. The Comprehensive Improvement Assistance Program, which provides funds for the maintenance and rehabilitation of public-housing projects, was cut from $2.5 billion in 1983 to $1.6 billion last year. Surely it is cheaper, as well as more humane, to renovate available apartments than to dump families into...
Conway said many people thought that there were physical problems with their own telephones and complained to his office, which is responsible for the phone repair. His employees had to drop their work to answer the calls, he said...