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Word: bathroom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kohler views a recession as a grand opportunity to increase his share of the kitchen and bathroom business. Because of the slump, he points out, some building materials cost less than they did in 1980, and thus the construction of new factories is comparatively inexpensive. During the recession in 1973-75, Kohler expanded its facilities enough to overtake American Standard as the largest manufacturer of luxury plumbing fixtures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rub-a-Dub-Dub | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

...Three of us were sharing an apartment on Cedar St. in 1972," he recalls. "I was sleeping on a raised platform above the back porch for 30 bucks a month. There were six drugheads crashing on the living room floor and shooting up in the bathroom. We didn't want them there, but they were friends of our grass connection and didn't have any place else to stay...

Author: By Charles R. Burress, | Title: The Problem With Us | 7/6/1982 | See Source »

...they conclude. "If you have sunk that low and there is really no other way out," twisting the rules becomes excusable. Thus they provide a few of the better suggestions and hints to guide your cheating. "Coughing codes and answer passing in class are apparently riskier techniques than the bathroom plant and the old-fashioned cribsheet. What of reworking an already-published essay as did Ms Napolitano? A "much safer" and a "beautiful way" to produce the last minute paper, say the authors...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Life in the Fast Lane | 6/20/1982 | See Source »

Interestingly, I was staying at the Radcliffe Alumnae House which is simply delightful. The rooms, while not elegant, are clean, bright and furnished with little niceties at plants and fresh flowers. I wonder if any Harvard Radcliffe (?) women who uses that sloppy bathroom would put a flower in her room or preter a lunch napkin in to one of paper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Women's Room | 6/20/1982 | See Source »

...brought up business. My family played, slept, are business. Everything is like running a business. Running a household is like running a business...Going to the bathroom is like running a business," says the winner of the Adams House "Greedy Capitalist" Award...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: 'Playing With the Big Boys' | 6/10/1982 | See Source »

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