Word: repairs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ground-breaking on the library has been held up because the MBTA has not been able to find a site to move its repair yard--now located on Bennett St. opposite Eliot House--to make way for the library...
...reforms. Finally, the invasion could have been a by-product of a power shift inside the Kremlin, an excuse to expose the failure of the current leadership to cope with Russia's problems. If so, the change need not necessarily appear immediately; Brezhnev and Co. might have to repair their mistakes before stepping down...
...pitched their tents hard by Czechoslovakia's border. Soviet tanks and at least 1,000 other military vehicles suddenly began rolling over the roads in East Germany, most of them headed southward toward the Czechoslovak border. The Kremlin announced a two-week series of maneuvers by supply and repair units of the Red army from Riga on the Baltic to Odessa on the Black Sea and, of course, along the frontier with Slovakia. The Russians also launched nationwide antiair craft exercises under the code name Operation Skyshield...
...Chicago's Lake View, shop classes in printing set type in letterpress instead of the more advanced offset technique. In Newton (Mass.) High School, electronics students learn radio repair with vacuum tubes instead of solidstate sets. And in classrooms from Bangor, Me., to Beverly Hills, Calif., future auto mechanics finish their courses with out scraping a knuckle inside an automatic transmission (though 80% of U.S. cars are shiftless). One-half of all shop students in the U.S. are plugging away at home economics and agriculture-hardly critical crafts-while only 15% practice more pertinent skills such as industrial design...
...flour delivered by a well-meaning welfare agency, in a household that has no oven; the pervasive odor of human urine and rat droppings in perennially damp walk-ups; the bite of wind or snow through a wall of rotten bricks and no hope that the landlord will repair the crack. Poverty is the certainty of being gouged?particularly by one's own kind. For if the poor share anything it is oppressors: credit dentists and credit opticians; credit furniture stores and credit food markets where for half again as much as the affluent pay, stale bread and rank hamburger...