Word: mortaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...usually trim away the ivy from windows and bricks so we can fix loose mortar and open the windows," added an official of Northwestern's Buildings and Grounds department...
Harvard began its ivy removal when administrators discovered mortar deterioration on ivy-covered buildings...
...potential death sprawls across 27 sq. mi. of rolling prairie. It is the site of the U.S. Army's Rocky Mountain Arsenal, which produced weapons and chemical agents until 1969. It now harbors corroded canisters of mustard gas, lethal phosphorus wastes from incendiary bombs, unexploded rockets and mortar shells embedded in a former firing range, millions of cubic yards of soil peppered with pesticides and an abandoned five-story production plant contaminated with nerve gas. Two vast man-made lagoons, once used as dump pits for toxic chemical and biological wastes, are the worst menaces of all. Toxic wastes...
...Columbia is planning more of a 'bricks-and-mortar' campaign than we are." Johnson said...
more comfortable dealing with a bricks-and-mortar institution than with a firm like Dreyfus that handles deposits and withdrawals by mail. More important, bank ownership would allow Dreyfus to provide federal insurance for its depositors up to $100,000, a competitive advantage that money funds currently lack. If Dreyfus is successful...