Word: repairing
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...prison and $750,000 in fines. His alleged crimes include gaining illegal access to computers at Digital Equipment Corp., in Massachusetts, and at the University of Leeds, in England, and stealing valuable computer programs and long-distance phone services. Prosecutors assert that it cost Digital $4 million to repair and upgrade its computer-security program after Mitnick's intrusion. He is believed to be the first person charged under a new federal law that prohibits breaking into an interstate computer network for criminal purposes...
...there, Soviet ships could control access in or out of the Red Sea, a choke point of global importance. South Yemen refuses to accord the U.S.S.R. full base rights for its navy, and is rumored to restrict port calls by Soviet warships to twelve a year. But bunkering and repair services are always available...
FASTEST-GROWING REPAIR BILL The official estimated price tag to bail out the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, which guarantees the deposits of the troubled thrift industry, jumped from $20 billion at the start of 1988 to as much as $50 billion by year...
...first, investigators believed the disaster might have been caused by massive structural failure. Though Boeing 747s are among the sturdiest passenger planes in the world, a Japan Air Lines 747 crashed on a domestic flight in 1985 after a rear bulkhead ruptured as the result of a faulty repair job, killing 520 of the 524 aboard. But one important difference between the Japan Air Lines crash and the Pan Am tragedy was that the pilot of the Japanese plane was able to talk to ground control for half an hour as he tried unsuccessfully to land his mortally wounded craft...
...actor, a 1978 Oscar nominee (The Buddy Holly Story), had just got his Harley-Davidson out of a repair shop in Culver City, Calif., and was heading down busy Washington Boulevard, when he failed to negotiate a right turn. He skidded and was thrown from his bike, his head slamming against a sidewalk. After nearly two hours of brain surgery, he was given a guardedly optimistic prognosis...