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Word: floorful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...secure night access, Harvard should install a lock system in the elevators that can only be worked from the guard's desk, so that people would have to call down to the desk in order to gain access to any floor but the first. The stairway should be locked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Chilling Reminder | 12/13/1988 | See Source »

SECURITY for the Science Center, which is open to the public 24 hours a day, is all too lax. A guard is usually sitting at the first floor elevator after 5 p.m. But a student told me that even the night following Wednesday's rape, the guard did not even ask for identification. In fact, the guard did not even bother to look up from his book, and only muttered, "Sign in," according to the student. The student could have easily penned any name into the log. And during the evenings, the doors to the stairs are often left unlocked...

Author: By Albert Y. Hsia, | Title: More Security, Not Vigilance | 12/13/1988 | See Source »

...Vail, Colo., for a skiing weekend and that Roberts was flying back to his home in San Francisco. But Kravis and Roberts stayed in close touch with their team in New York City as it prepared the final attack. When the directors met last week on the 35th floor of a midtown Manhattan skyscraper to open the final bids, they found that Kravis and Roberts had pumped their offer up to $106 a share, while the apparently complacent Johnson group bid only $101. A board adviser also noted that "KKR had the sounder financial structure." The First Boston team, meanwhile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 250,000,000,000 Buyout Barons : KKR outfox Ross Johnson's group | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

Accepting defeat, Johnson issued a concession. Said he: "I am proud of the fact that we put the best bid on the table the first time and this time." He then returned with an attorney to RJR's 48th-floor New York offices in seemingly good spirits. As city lights glittered around them, the two men sipped drinks and munched Oreo cookies while reflecting on the day's ordeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 250,000,000,000 Buyout Barons : KKR outfox Ross Johnson's group | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

...letter T emblazoned on every surface where the name Trump is not, and celebrity residents paying some of the highest prices in Manhattan. After walking through the atrium lobby, decorated with an oversize poster of Trump's book, Gorbachev is scheduled to get a tour of Trump's 26th-floor office: its wall of magazine covers, its panoramic view of Central Park, and its reflection of Trump himself in the gold mirror tile ceiling. Then, if time and security permit, it's on to the private quarters on the top three floors of the building: a sprawling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Superpower to Another | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

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