Word: boilers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...basement of Dater Junior High, just next to the boiler room and marked off by thick prison bars, school officials have crafted a fate worse than algebra class. Teachers at the school, part of the Cincinnati, Ohio, public school district, simply call it "the dungeon." Students have more descriptive -- if unprintable -- names for the small windowless cell. Though the prison bars are just painted on the cinder-block entrance, the punishment is real. Delinquent students must remain in the room -- absolutely quiet -- all day, even eating at their desks. "It's so hot and so boring," moans a seventh grader...
...soot release was caused by a loose linkage on the boiler's air damper, O'Brien's letter said...
...efficient for the University to heat the buildings by steam rather than natural gas because the University "does not need storage tanks, a boiler room or a gas main," Hawkes says...
Consumer watchdogs say overseas-job scams rake in at least $100 million a year. No one, not even the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), knows for sure. But the trade is so lucrative that even a small-time boiler-room operation with just three phones can take in $5,000 a day. Fly-by-night operators flourish in Florida, where policing is spotty at best. In the past year about 100 employment agencies have sprung up in the state to peddle overseas jobs. Half have already closed...
...suck us up? If only the boiler hadn...