Word: basement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fire broke out in the basement of the History of Science departmental building, located at 1764 Cambridge Street, yesterday afternoon, causing extensive damage to the basement but injuring no one. The cause of the blaze has not been determined...
Early in the evening, a yellow Ford pulled up to the southwest entrance of the White House. Transition boss Edwin Meese and Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt piled out and proceeded to the Situation Room in the basement. They were about to make their nightly call to Ronald Reagan at his Pacific Palisades home and now they felt it necessary to use the most tap-proof telephones in the nation to discuss the most top-secret political topic in town: Who would be members of his new Cabinet...
...Harvard University Police Monday began their move from the basement of Grays Hall to their new headquarters at 29 Garden Street--a change that will "heighten Quad security," Saul L. Chafin, chief of University Police, said this week...
...fire spread-the MGM Grand apparently met all other fire regulations. The county building code passed in 1979 required new hotels in Las Vegas to install sprinklers and smoke detectors on every floor, but the MGM Grand, built in 1973, was exempt. The hotel had sprinklers only on the basement, first and top floors. There were no smoke detectors. Said MGM Grand Hotels Board Chairman Fred Benninger of the tragedy: "This could have happened in any large hotel anywhere in America...
...citizens of Harbor Springs, Mich, (pop. 1,600), like people in cities and towns all over America, were worrying about what to do with the old folks. For a time, a church basement served as a center for the area's 400 retired, sometimes ailing, senior citizens. But the place was hard for many to get to, and its facilities were limited. Harbor Springs High School, though, had room, as well as a varied curriculum. So earlier this year Community Schools Director Robert Doan made a proposition: Why not bring older people to the school? As he puts...