Word: basement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scientists also take issue with the report's argument that only large-scale industry, on the Soviet model, can mass-produce the toxins. Argues Biochemist James Bamburg of Colorado State University: "You can do it in your basement or a converted dog kennel." What most concerns scientific skeptics is that the physical samples, the crux of the Government's case, are few in number and have been gathered in haphazard fashion. Notes Ecologist Arthur Westing of Hampshire College, who chaired a panel on chemical weapons at a January meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science...
...museum's own vast collection will remain stored in the building's basement at least until the end of the "Danzig 1939" exhibit in June. Outside supporters, including the National Endowment for the Humanities and Combined Jewish Philanthropies, brought the Danzig exhibit to Harvard, but it is unclear whether the museum will have funds in the future to exhibit its own holdings...
...when production and sales are falling. As business activity winds down, stockpiles of unsold commodities and goods begin to swell, choking the stream of commerce with bulging inventories of everything from aluminum and grain to cars and unsold homes. To raise cash, businessmen begin dumping their inventories at bargain-basement rates, dragging down prices even further...
...must stand firm on the three basic commitments." Despite his call for a bipartisan approach, he posed the issues in sharply partisan terms when talking privately with a handful of Republican leaders on the Hill. "What are the Democrats going to run on?" he asked. "Raising taxes? Bargain basement defense when our planes won't fly? Where the hell have they been for the last 40 years? They have been in charge and look at the mess they've created. That's why I say draw sabers and charge...
...nakedness in record time for an afternoon frolic. On another occasion Sears ruminates on the temptress Renee's remark "that male discharges were, in her experience the most restorative face cream." Shortly afterward, Sears finds himself lilted--out on his ear without explanation. Distraught, he winds up in the basement of the apartment and has a very unexpected homosexual encounter with the building's elevator man. The world, it seems, is many for Lemuel...