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...idle since 1973-at a cost of $100,000 a day in maintenance and interest payments on construction loans -the Prime Minister had flatly declared that "Japan's prestige is at stake" and insisted that Narita would open for business in April. Now it could take months to repair the damage...
Then, in exchange for a $20 deposit, the diagnostician may consent to attempt to repair the $30 appliance...
...simple folklore that most small appliances are not as sturdily made as they used to be, or that getting defective ones repaired can be a multi-Excedrin headache. Says John Lavezzo, who has maintained a one-man, two-room, three-telephone Fix-It Shop in Boston for 39 years: "Today they don't want you to repair things. They want you to buy'em, use'em and throw'em away." He and other seasoned repairmen say that the substitution of brittle plastics for metal makes many machines more breakdown-prone, and they blame some...
...fairness to the manufacturers, repairers point out that many consumers do not read instructions or take care of their appliances. Mrs. Ellen Rittle, who has run a repair center in Burbank, Calif., for 25 years, says that toasters often contain such detritus as pennies, spoons, sunflower seeds and cockroaches...
...constituents during his 30 years in Congress. At the beginning of the program, the lights were turned out and the diners lit hundreds of matches to show how Flood had "restored light" to Wilkes-Barre in 1972 by securing more than $1 billion in federal aid to repair the damage caused by Hurricane Agnes. Said Flood, who sported a green carnation in his buttonhole in honor of St. Patrick's Day: "I have done my best, in the best way I know how, to provide whatever service I can to the people I represent." No one in the audience...