Word: repairing
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...becoming shopworn. "There never has been so much pressure on parks as today," says Paul Pritchard, a former Interior Department official who is now president of the National Parks and Conservation Association. The General Accounting Office reported this spring that the parks need an immediate $1.9 billion to repair roads, trails and buildings. "Deterioration of some assets is so advanced that they may be lost permanently," GAO stated. Among the worst cases...
...Yugoslav lamp fixture or a Rumanian sofa bed brings fireworks to our eyes. When a child is born, we humiliate ourselves to obtain day care and kindergartens, finding nipples, crawlers, disposable diapers, carriages, sleds, playpens. We humiliate ourselves in stores, beauty parlors, tailor shops, dry cleaners, car-repair garages, restaurants, hotels, box offices and Aeroflot counters, repair shops for TVs, refrigerators and sewing machines -- stepping on our pride, moving from wheedling to arguing and back to wheedling. We spend all our time trying to get something. It's humiliating that we still can't feed ourselves, having to buy bread...
Internationally famous architect LeCorbusier built the center. And center affiliate Michael A. Callahan left it--taking an unpaid leave of absence to protest the failure to repair the rails...
...that should make life easier. The average minimum wage has been raised from $317 to $336 monthly, a change that benefits women primarily. Salaries have improved for some lower-paid professionals, among them teachers and doctors, who are mostly women. Moreover, many factories have added on-site banks, shoe-repair shops and even commissaries from which weekly food packages can be ordered...
...chastening | process. Texas Air's chief rival, Dallas-based American, was slapped with a $1.5 million fine three years ago by the FAA. Although the airline admitted no wrongdoing, it boosted its maintenance payroll by 3,000 workers, to 9,471 at present, and doubled the number of its repair stations, to 39. Nor is Chicago- based United immune to safety problems. Last week a United 747 with 258 people aboard barely reached Tokyo's airport on just one of its four engines after apparently suffering a malfunction of a fuel-distribution valve...