Word: basement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...phosphorous acid spill in the Lyman Physics Laboratories followed a week later, requiring the evacuation of the Lyman, Jefferson and Cruft laboratories. The chemical was leaking from a container in the basement machine shop of Lyman...
Everyone with heart disease knows that if you survive a first attack, life becomes a long, complex negotiation with the menace--the killer in black pajamas who has come to live in the basement. You hear him down there. Sometimes he climbs the stairs and beats on the kitchen door. You feed him sublingual pellets of nitro and tell him to settle down...
...party strategist. A degree of organization is necessary to run a successful campaign for any office, but Rawlins' inflated sense of self-importance was evident in the countless news items and word-of-mouth reports regarding the sophisticated War Room she employed to win that glorious office in the basement of Holworthy...
Seven undergraduates met in the basement of Lowell Hall last night to discuss a new magazine that will focus on the lives of pre-medical students at the College...
...passing out money or tax breaks--to subsidize activities ranging from shipbuilding to coal research, from the sale of U.S.-made weapons overseas to peanut farming. Washington helps buy crop insurance for tobacco, builds roads into national forests for the timber industry, sells minerals on public lands at bargain-basement rates and offers cut-rate electricity for businesses like casinos. The Feds help shippers that use inland waterways and bail out American banks with loans gone bad in foreign countries. It's the U.S. government's cafeteria of corporate welfare, and it's draining more than a third...