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Travail. Meanwhile, the repair bill is climbing; it averages $100,000 per engine. Fan-related repair costs this month have cost Pan Am alone some $1,200,000. Pratt & Whitney's engines are covered by such a complicated warranty that lawyers may become rich arguing over how much of the repair will have to be paid for by the manufacturer and how much by the airlines...
...week expressed their confidence in the man who faces perhaps the toughest task in British politics since World War II. Whitelaw acknowledged the praise but declared sadly: "I deserve none of these things because I am not succeeding." Nonetheless, he emphasized that he would "continue to soldier through" to repair the truce. Accordingly, the British government sent in additional troops, bringing its strength in Ulster to 17,000, the highest ever...
...fixed myself to the boat with a line and went over the side. The water was intensely cold. It was blowing Force 8 [gale winds of up to 40 knots], and the waves were about 12 ft. high. But it had to be done. I had either to repair the boat or abandon the race...
...Navy pilots flying from the Kitty Hawk swept to within one mile of Haiphong where they reported three supply warehouses heavily damaged after a strike on the Haiphong vehicle repair facility south of that city," the Seventh Fleet said in a communique...
...facet of insurance has escaped him. When Denenberg became upset over the difficulty of replacing a taillight on his state-owned Buick Le Sabre, he made the extravagant charge that General Motors designers made cars hard to repair in order to drive up repair costs for the benefit of dealers and parts manufacturers. With that, G.M. sent two executives to Harrisburg to inspect Denenberg's car. (They claimed it had suffered a "rear impact" that complicated repair of the taillight.) Denenberg has called the present system for paying auto-accident claims "a legalized racket," noting that the Pennsylvania state...