Instead of repairing your rod to close to its original length, you can take a rod that broke 1/3 to 1/2 the distance from the handle to the tip and convert the tip section into an ice fishing rod.
It makes more sense for us to buy new instead of repairing or altering our old stuff -- indeed, between 1900 and 2013, tailors in the U.S. declined from nearly 230,000 to just 21,400.
Thus, it is better to start a new route-request-discovery process instead of repairing the broken route.
But a few weeks ago, instead of repairing the long-defective escalators, workers encased them with a jury-rigged contraption made of drywall and glistening metal beams.
One of their number, James Howard Kunstler, blasted the High Line as "decadent", "a weed-filled 1.5 mile-long stretch of abandoned elevated railroad", where "mistakes are artfully multiplied and layered", such as "the notion that buildings don't have to relate to the street-and-block grid... instead of repairing the discontinuities of recent decades, we just celebrate them and make them worse".
Instead of repairing old infrastructure, the preference has been for launching huge new projects named after the king: a giant financial centre on the outskirts of Riyadh, industrial cities, a university, and so on.The second pillar of the Saudi state, its stern Wahhabist clerics, is also weaker than it was.
Paul Krugman asks three basic questions about Hurricane Katrina: "Why have aid and security taken so long to arrive?" "Why wasn't more preventive action taken?" "Did the Bush administration destroy FEMA's effectiveness?" I'd like to add three other questions: Why are we spending billions each month in Iraq instead of repairing levees in New Orleans?
We distance ourselves when we feel guilt instead of repairing the relationship.
Instead of repairing their 60 year old building in downtown, they purchased a 5 acre plot in the Broadmoor residential subdivision of Meridian and built a new synagogue.
Instead of repairing the wires, Verizon decided to push customers onto a wireless product called Voice Link, which is a 1990s-styled cell phone device (literally 2G -- not a fancy 3G or 4G) that can't do basic data services that have been part of POTS, Plain Old Telephone Service, since the 1980s, from alarm circuits or dial up Internet to credit card processing.
