Word: draining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...being read into a Supreme Court tape recorder, Alvin Bronstein, executive director of the A.C.L.U.'s National Prison Project, was sitting in the lobby writing out in longhand an application to stay the execution. As he wrote, the lights flickered on and off, a consequence of the drain on the building's electrical system caused by the refrigeration of historic documents in glass cases in the lobby. Only 51 minutes before the scheduled execution, a clerk handed Bronstein's two-page petition to Justice White. Twenty minutes later he issued an order for a stay. The news...
...added that he was also considering taking legal action against the City of Cambridge for the faulty drain...
...broken street drain in Brattle Square sent between 5000 and 10,000 gallons of rain water into the Wordsworth Bookstore early Wednesday morning, causing an estimated $100,000 in damage...
...people are shot when a group of desperate families raids a flood-control embankment. The wounded raiders are seeking to drain the water from their suburban Bangkok district; the gunman is protecting his dryer neighborhood. Elsewhere in the sodden Thai city, slumdwellers stage boat races in water fouled with raw sewage, and medical teams distribute antityphoid vaccine and foot-fungus ointment. It is monsoon season in Southeast Asia, and as this year's rains have made all too obvious, Bangkok (pop. 5.5 million) is slowly sinking...
...more conciliatory stand; questions about Jackson's administrative capacity to run the $2-4 million-dollar campaign he needs to survive in the primaries; concerns that Jackson is an egotistical climber looking to become the one national Black political leader; and the possibility that a Jackson candidacy would drain votes from Walter Mondale's effort, increasing conservative John Glenn's likelihood of gaining the nomination...