Word: hallway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What do you think the job of a city councilloris?" he asked. "This is a city that you can't putup a Christmas tree because that would beoffensive. And they would allow something likethis in the City hallway annex...
...engineer sees the bed in flames, runs into the hallway, finds a janitor's closet containing a sink and a bucket, turns the water on high, fills the bucket, and drenches the fire, in the process making a wet sooty of everything...
...physicist enters his room and sees the inferno. He pauses to make some rough measurements, runs into the hallway making order of magnitude calculations, finds the bucket, fills it with just enough water, and precisely pours it where it has the greatest effect, wasting little water and minimizing damage...
...mathematician takes note of the blaze, runs into the hallway, finds the cleaning closet, checks that the faucet is operating and the bucket is intact, runs back to the room to re-examine the fire, then says proudly, "Aha! A solution exists...
...person pointed out the analogy of adepartment whose mailboxes are in a hallway," hesaid. "Anyone could, if they made the effort, readthe mail...