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...will make it easier for people who have been ripped off by crooked landlords and fly-by-night repairmen to collect the compensation they deserve," said Elizabeth R. Pope '98, director of law reform of SCAS...
Breakdowns dominate consumers' thoughts about these appliances. Maytag, rather than make commercials about how its machines get everything clean, makes commercials claiming that the machines break down so rarely that Maytag repairmen are bored to tears...
...other night my wife said that some of those servicemen in the Maytag commercials who are always complaining about not having enough to do should be retrained to repair television sets. I explained to my wife that the Maytag commercials aren't meant to be taken literally, that Maytag repairmen actually do have enough to do, and that the commercials are simply employing a small conceit as a way of calling attention to a claim that Maytag appliances require less servicing than competing brands...
...something she already knew. I do it all the time, and it's never an absolutely splendid experience for either of us. In this case, my wife had actually met someone who was once a Maytag repairman, working alone in a rural area. He hated those commercials about bored repairmen. Apparently, people would call him to get their appliances repaired, and he'd tell them that, given his appointment schedule, he wouldn't be able to get out there until the following Tuesday. "Why can't you come right now?" the caller would say. "You're just sitting around...
...aftermath of the tragic police helicopter crash that took four lives, one question arises: Do government agencies, especially the police (who have a high level of unaccountability), regularly provide helicopter taxi service for repairmen...