Word: building
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...July OSHA penalized Chrysler, alleging that workers at a Newark, Del., assembly plant were exposed to high levels of arsenic and lead in the paint and soldering areas. (The company plans to pay the $1.6 million fine.) In Chicago, ten of the 5,000 workers who have helped build the so-called Deep Tunnel project, which has created 50 miles of underground passageways for flood and sewage control, have died in construction accidents since 1975. Grain Belt workers face combines with sharp blades that sever fingers and limbs, foul-smelling air in hog-farrowing barns that can cause lung disease...
...Year-Old Man routine "taught me that if the audience knows you can be funny when you want to be, they will be willing to wait for that payoff." Among his early routines was a famous bit in which God tries to convince a skeptical Noah that he should build an ark. But Cosby soon gravitated toward a more fertile subject: his childhood. In vivid, richly textured narratives, he told of cutting up with neighborhood characters like Old Weird Harold and Fat Albert, sharing a bed with his younger brother Russell, going to the hospital to get his tonsils...
...Museum of Science hopes to build a cult following for the film by showing it late on weekend nights...
...would make sense to build some more sororities. We'd see an overall increase in the number of students in the Greek system," Parfomak said...
Fumihiko Maki, 59, is not so eager to build abroad. "At construction sites in Japan," he says, "workers are always so willing to cooperate with architects that we can do something almost unthinkable in the U.S. -- modify our designs in the process of building." Maki knows what he is talking about. He earned master's degrees in the '50s from Michigan's Cranbrook Academy of Arts and from Harvard, taught at Harvard and practiced in New York City with Skidmore Owings & Merrill. He returned to Tokyo...