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...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...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: The Steam Tunnels | 12/4/1993 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nice Work If You Can Get It | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

...suck us up? If only the boiler hadn...

Author: By Steve L. Burt, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Lyrical Moment | 12/17/1992 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Evan P. Cucci, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: False Alarms Annoy Students | 9/28/1992 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Machines Are Listening | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

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