Word: bottoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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characterized as being top to bottom, with...
Getting to the bottom of governmental wrongdoing is something of a cottage industry in Washington nowadays. No fewer than four independent counsel -- formerly known as special prosecutors -- are conducting probes of alleged misdeeds by current and former Administration officials, most notably the Iranscam investigation led by Lawrence E. Walsh. But last week a pair of challenges cast doubt on the legal validity of those efforts...
...Guinness affair has reaffirmed a deeply felt suspicion of the City. Recently, 80% of those surveyed in a Gallup poll believed that the charges of "shady dealings" and "corruption" applied to "many" City companies. "I always felt there are bigger rogues at the top than there are at the bottom," says George Payne, a foreman at British Road Services' Oxford depot. "So this is no surprise...
...knew they would run out of meat and would have to turn to eggs somewhere on the crossing, and the trick was to keep the eggs from rotting. First, she learned, turn the eggs once a week (it takes one week for the yolk to drop to the bottom, touching the shell and commencing to rot). Second, coat them with vaseline (to clog the porous shell and keep moisture and oxygen away from the yolk). For good measure, they had taken two live chickens. Michel promised them, "If you lay one egg, I will spare your life." The chickens contributed...
...rectangles about the size of the cells, and prisoners are allowed to exercise only with cellmates. Each yard is seven steps long, three steps wide. There is a concrete floor and rough concrete walls four meters ((12 ft.)) high, covered with wire mesh. It is like being at the bottom of a well. Prisoners call it 'seeing the sky through a screen.' " The walls were so high that the sun was never visible: "We don't see the sun for years, but it can rain...