Word: handing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 has one of those faucets you have to keep pushing down, so there's not much water either. That's just as well, the hand dryer (you thought maybe they'd have paper towels?) being busted. The two of you exit damply, wondering, Can public rest rooms in America really be this...
...young architect starting out, says Kira, "being given bathrooms is like being given latrine duty in the Army." He surveys the resulting mistakes in a men's room at National: no shelves for hand luggage above the backs of the toilets -- ideal for thieves who can grab a bag from under the stall door when you're least able to fight back; a urinal that projects into the narrow aisle, so everybody has to sidle past; a sink counter that is too spacious -- good at home, but here just someplace to slop up as you go drip-dropping in search...
...lead the effort, the Department of Energy or the National Institutes of Health? Biomedical researchers have been worried that DOE, which entered the project out of interest in the effects of radiation on DNA, would stress technological achievements at the expense of scientific discovery. DOE scientists, on the other hand, have complained that NIH lacks the experience to handle such a large, complex program...
With a full complement of East bloc countries on hand for the first time in eight years, a bundle of Olympic records were set. Jozef Pribilinec of Czechoslovakia won the 20-km walk in 1:19:57, breaking the old record by more than 3 min. Mop-top Khristo Markov of Bulgaria hopped, skipped and soared to a triple-jump record of 57 ft. 9 1/2 in., while American favorite Willie Banks placed sixth. East Germany's Ulf Timmermann threw the shot put 73 ft. 8 3/4 in. for an Olympic record, and Randy Barnes of the U.S. placed second...
...runners are as different as a firecracker and a long fuse. Johnson has an explosive start and eventually decelerates; Lewis starts more slowly and builds. As the gun went off last week, Johnson burst out of the blocks, seized the lead, and held it. Lewis, on the other hand, got a characteristically slower start, but instead of accelerating past his adversary, he looked to his right three times, always to see Johnson in front of him. Before he even crossed the finish line, Big Ben raised his index finger to signal that he was still No. 1. Carl Lewis...