Word: boiler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first alarm sounded last Tuesday morning due to the emissions of a faulty boiler in the basement of the apartments, said 29 Garden St. resident George S. Wang '96. Because most students were away in class, few residents were disturbed by the 11 a.m. alarm...
...houses can now bark their buy and sell orders into special telephones and see their trades instantly recorded on computer screens at their desks. Similar systems are being used by quality-control inspectors on factory lines, by doctors filling out medical reports and by lawyers putting together paragraphs of boiler-plate prose...
...Soft-Boiler...
Bush carefully studied the leadership style of Ronald Reagan, which was to keep a public amiability while having a wrecking crew ready in the boiler room. Bush has had his political roughnecks, like Roger Ailes and the late Lee Atwater, who played the Willie Horton race card in the 1988 campaign. "I can't imagine this campaign will be that tough," muses a White House tactician. "But we will be ready...
...from Pangloss to pessimist with an artful analysis of the nation's class cleavages. He correctly identifies the growing economic and social gap between the well- educated elite ("the fortunate fifth") and the rest of the nation as the major threat to future prosperity. His remedies are mostly liberal boiler plate: progressive taxation, job training and reinvestment in the nation's infrastructure. Familiar Reich stuff -- but probably not the right stuff for Democrats hungering for an economic road map toward 1992 and beyond...