Word: entryways
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What have you been doing, Beth?" "Well, isn't that cute!" I can't wait to see you try to turn that into a job/future/life. I didn't think I would have a problem feeling superior to the people in my old entryway. Why should anything change after three years...
Another big problem was the way the tables were set up. It was too crowded to sit with your entryway, so you were forced to find anyone normal looking. Just like being a freshman again...
...response to complaints about campus safety, Harvard installs a new voice-activated security system in each dormitory entryway. Those who wish to open a door must correctly pronounce "Nietzsche" and be able to compute the standard deviation of a set of data, which is changed nightly. "We knew the QRR would come in handy someday," says Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett...
Iwas returning to my dormitory when I realized I had forgotten my key again. Reaching my entryway, I rattled the doorknob in frustration. I then noticed the door seemed rather loose, so I gave it a tug, and it came open. Just like that, without a key. Glad to be inside, but dispirited by Harvard's shoddy security system, I plodded up to my room and began to write...
...video cameras could be installed just inside the entryway doors. Stores do this to prevent shoplifting because they cannot afford to post guards at every aisle. A video system would be both a means of prevention and criminal identification. Just the presence of the cameras would discourage many intruders, and if an assailant does choose to enter, we would not need to rely upon a "reconstructed image" to identify him. The expense involved with this proposal would only be the start-up costs for the video equipment, which need not be of high quality...