$16 billion to repair public housing and make key energy efficiency retrofits.
The ghosts of Challenger and Columbia notwithstanding, NASA's top mission manager decides the gouged shuttle Endeavour can withstand re-entry without repair.
Consumers who are putting off new purchases are turning to businesses that repair old ones.
Repair cafes: A movement to fix broken appliances gains momentum The repair culture has taken a beating over the last 40 years,said Bryce Jacobson, a senior waste reduction planner with Metro who volunteered at Portland's first "Repair Cafe" pilot event at Last Thursday on Alberta last month. "The price of a new item is so low."
June 14, 2013 - The Oregonian
Repair Costs May Put Drivers on the Road Bad weather may have raised repair costs in the Northeast, but frugal drivers can always detour to cheaper mechanics.
June 13, 2013 - CNBC
Barack Obama in Irish Times Over the remainder of 2008, the effects of monetary policy and fiscal stimulus, a gradual ebbing of the drag from residential construction, further progress in the repair of financial and credit markets, and still-solid demand from abroad should... Ben Bernanke http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bernanke&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEsTNLK-7-f3R5-thHohB-P27CEdw MarketWatch http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/bernanke-says-slowdown-bring-inflation/story.aspx%3Fguid%3D%257BB17B9D54-A9A8-4B31-8F65-2AD170A5B561%257D%26dist%3Dmsr_1&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFWIb2YzhTIRQsaDOVj8PPueCxOuA Jun 9, 2008
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