Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bureaucratic mistakes, a drop in energy prices and even high clean-up costs after the Chernobyl nuclear accident for the lack of progress. But he also points a finger at the "inconsistency, indecisiveness and halfway measures" that pervade the reform program, largely as a result of compromises with conservative foot-draggers...
...campus. The kiosk, which will accommodate a single security guard, is being built primarily in wood in "the style of an 18th-century cupola," according to Jon Hlafter, director of physical planning at Princeton. With a price tag of $50,000, the booth will cost about $1000 per square foot, Hlafter estimates...
...pricey kiosk is reminiscent of Harvard's own sentry booth, built in 1983 at a total cost of $57,000. Crafted in the Victorian style and also built to house a single security guard, the Johnston Gate kiosk boasted a cost per square foot of about...
Hlafter said that the Princeton sentry house "is hardly a building in the traditional sense. It is more a decorative piece." He said that as an aesthetic work, the booth should not be judged on a cost-per-square foot basis...
Saturday morning and you're out at the discount store with the family. Suddenly the three-year-old starts hip-hopping urgently from foot to foot, and you know what that means. In the men's room there is no toilet paper. When Daddy asks for some, the woman at the customer-service desk eyes him as if he were just the sort of geek to jam the roll down the toilet, flush twice and drown everybody in the store. The toilet, it turns out, does not flush well anyway. Also there's no soap, and the sink...