Word: repairing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were also the years when the volatile Sihanouk brilliantly maintained his balancing act of keeping Cambodia neutral. "He got the U.S. to build a four-lane highway, to the port of Kompong Som," recalls Wilde, "and when the monsoons washed parts of it away, he got the Russians to repair it. He delighted in inviting the diplomatic corps to help build irrigation projects. Every time he dug up a bit of earth at one of those ceremonies, the peasants would catch it, for he was sacred and so was everything he touched...
...long as the CRR is designed as a political disciplinary committee no amount of reform will repair its basic flaw. There is no place in an academic community for an institution designed to control expression. Until the Faculty repudiates the very concept of such an institution, no student should break the reinstated boycott...
...seed varieties, the use of insecticides and the exchange of specialists. While the Chinese have made some progress toward mechanization, they need more than 1 million additional tractors, 320,000 trucks, at least 3 million combine harvesters, new drainage and irrigation machinery and 700,000 technicians for machinery repair and maintenance. The hardware will be difficult to get, since farm equipment is normally bought with surplus capital, which China must ordinarily use to purchase grain from abroad. Result: China is likely to remain a net importer of grain, and the rationing of edible oils and other staples will probably continue...
...been able to pick OCAW deliberately. The union's members are well paid; counting shift premiums, they average $9.32 an hour. Moreover, oil refineries are so automated that OCAW could strike and hardly anybody would notice for a while; if there are no breakdowns requiring major repair, refineries can be run by a few engineers turning dials. In fact, says one oil executive, "during one long strike we were actually able to produce more than we did before the walkout...
Robert J. Kiely, master of Adams House, said last night that Lowell House is providing rooms for the 20 students who were forced out of their rooms by the fire, until Buildings and Grounds workers can repair the damage...