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...over a five-year period, settled for half, and will get patrol boats, radar gear and a $26 million M-16 rifle plant. Taiwan has already begun to manufacture its own helicopters under a contract with Bell. U.S. advisers are also training the Nationalist Chinese to repair trucks, tanks, personnel carriers and other equipment damaged in Viet Nam, with the hope that Taiwan will eventually become an area resupply center...
Bernard Bowie, a licensed electrician who had worked with McNeil for six months, disagreed with Coleman. "He [McNeil] frequently hung fixtures, bent and cut piping, pulled wiring, and helped repair motors," Bowie said. "He did everything an apprentice electrician does...
...less profitable compacts, minicars and fast-increasing imports (now 15% of the U.S. domestic market). Restive dealers grumbled over what they considered to be excessive factory control, reductions in their price markups, and the "dumping" of unwanted cars on their sales lots. Discontented customers demanded more reliability and easier repair-at a time when management found it increasingly hard to maintain quality output in their plants, in great part because of worker unrest. The eight-week strike against General Motors made a weak year even worse. In 1970 the U.S. is expected to produce 6,550,000 cars, down from...
...really remarkable feature of Avižienis' brainchild is a specially gifted unit dubbed TARP (for Test And Repair Processor). Like a zealous office manager always peering over the shoulders of his clerks, TARP can almost instantly spot errors, determine who has made them, and take steps to discipline or replace the wrongdoer. It constantly monitors the specially coded messages -or interoffice memos, as Avižienis calls them-that pass between the units, and immediately reacts to deviations from normal in the computer chatter. "It's as if a person were to start mispronouncing or slurring words...
...story apartment buildings near Fresh Pond which Wasserman built in 1969 were described by one tenant as "sloppily built. It cost him more to repair the mistakes than it would have cost if he hadn't cut corners." The City Council vetoed plans to construct a third such building in the area...