Word: airtight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard may not go down as easily as the biblical giant. While Medical area workers demonstrate in the freezing cold outside Mass hall--"We're a separate unit, so let's get to it!"--Daniel Steiner, the University's general counsel, sits inside coordinating Harvard's predictably airtight legal defense. As workmen paste up a billboard near the Medical Area calling on President Bok to relent, Thomas L.P. O'Donnell, a Ropes and Gray labor lawyer whom Ed Powers, director of employee relations, calls "one of the best in the business" is drafting briefs that will certainly give District...
...During exam period last June, a student became so worried about an upcoming final that he asked his roommate to smash his finger with a hammer. The roommate obliged, with some precautions taken for his friend's safety and comfort, and the distraught student suffered his way into an airtight medical excuse...
...negotiating kickbacks. That is when the second good deal came along for the agent-a union-contract clause stipulating that an employee fired for cause must be notified within 30 days of committing the offense. Pan Am did not want to confront the employee until it had prepared an airtight case, and that took longer than 30 days. Thanks to the technicality, the kickback-collecting employee is still a Pan Am purchasing agent...
...archives the complete folders are kept in acid-free, nearly airtight boxes, safe from dust and pollution though prey to heat and humidity...
...Airtight, lighted, elaborately warmed...