Word: boiler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sentenced to four years in prison in another case, a conviction that was overturned on appeal. By the '80s, he had set out for Europe to help run an Amsterdam-based company called First Commerce Securities, which became mired in scandal. The operation was a classic boiler room--a brokerage firm that used high-pressure sales tactics to push dubious securities. Telemarketers dialed for dollars around the clock to all points of the globe...
...most recent unannounced inspection was of the waste processes and air quality of boiler plants at the Radcliffe campus. The inspection resulted in relatively minor recommendations which centered around improved record-keeping...
...sure, Buchanan's "anti-institutional" demagoguery represents a break from the Republican boiler plate of recent years in three ways. First, Buchanan targets the institutions of both Washington and Wall Street, whereas earlier Republican demagoguery restricted itself to attacking Washington. But you can't expect populism, once unleashed, to forever avoid its traditional (and, to many minds, logically more compelling) target. Second, Buchanan has turned up the heat. His blame game is more pointed and angry. But if you've been doing your best to keep popular resentments at a high simmer, your indignation is suspect when someone decides...
...night of Dec. 11, just as Feuerstein was being thrown a surprise 70th birthday party, a boiler at Malden Mills exploded, setting off a fire that injured 27 people and destroyed three of the factory's century-old buildings. Because Malden Mills employs 2,400 people in an economically depressed area, the news was as devastating as the fire. According to Paul Coorey, the president of Local 311 of the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees, "I was standing there seeing the mill burn with my son, who also works there, and he looked at me and said...
...Canaday pizza parlor, for instance, holds a "pizza porto" to process the dough made by the bread maker, an "electric bread-slicing system," refrigerator, microwave, toaster over, blender, coffee maker, espresso machine, coffee grinder and an instant water boiler...