Word: doored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President, who promised during the campaign to make the White House an example of economy in Government, granting the raises made little political sense. After pleasing the public in January by banning limousines and door-to-door pickup service for his aides, he boosted his major assistants' salaries in March by roughly 25%. The top White House salary was increased from $44,600 to $56,000, but Carter escaped major criticism by pointing out that the raise was $1,500 less than the maximum authorized by Congress. While the latest raises also had congressional approval, their across-the-board...
...Friday night, as the weekend was beginning, the chief teller-standing in a cage behind a series of locked and guarded doors in the vault area two floors beneath ground level-had counted the money. It was resting on cart T-12, and the bundles of cash added up to $4 million. He wheeled the cart through another heavy door into the main vault. At the end of work on Tuesday, after the bank had reopened, the chief teller counted the money again. This time the tally was $3 million...
...transfers abroad, once in the hundreds for every job, are now in the dozens. Like many companies, FMC, an international conglomerate based in Chicago, is responding to employee pressure by eliminating many executive transfers around the country. Says a spokesman: "We are trying to slow down the revolving door...
Things opened up in the second period, including the penalty box door, which greeted Kevin O'Donoghue and George Hughes with penalties after less than a minute and a half had expired...
...imagined the door swung half open and inside he could see neon, orange and green lights blinking, and bats blowing trumpets and alligators playing trombones, and where he could see snakes screaming. Weird masks and actors' clothes hung on the wall, and if he stepped across the sill and reached for them, he knew that he was committing himself to his own destruction...