Word: overheads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...domain is potentially perilous. As the agile Taiwanese woman leads visitors through a cluttered site in suburban Taipei, she warns them to watch out for jagged steel and rusted pipes. But she doesn't seem too nervous about the crane that swings a ton of scrap metal just overhead...
...walk into the place any time after two in the afternoon, however, the effect is draining. A smattering of undergraduates populate the stark, barren environment. The wan overhead lights complement the sterile decor, partitions inexplicably blocking off entire sections of tables from one another. A gov TF trudges in, seats himself on an unforgiving plastic chair and waits alone for students to visit his office hours, though none ever do. Restaurant workers peer forlornly out from the one open counter, looking in vain for someone, anyone to serve. It's like you've set foot...
...observation shown in his book, I'm sure he did, he didn't comment. He's much too polite for that. We sit in a vinyl booth, at a table covered in red Formica, underneath a wall filled with photographs of the BU football team while electric fans hum overhead. Two burly Boston cops sit in the booth behind ours, shouting at the short order cook in a Boston accent worthy of a Jordan's Furniture commercial. Their noise does not drown out the precise, thoughtful speech and South African accent of Mr. Morris, however, and somehow the two tables...
...ADVANTAGE] Lower overhead like rent...
...into the northeast. In keeping with the best traditions of Soviet propaganda, Moscow announced that "the local people" in several Chechen districts are rising up against Islamic extremists. An estimated 50,000 to 60,000 additional Russian troops are massed on Chechnya's borders, awaiting the order to move. Overhead, Russian warplanes continued the systematic destruction of Chechnya's communications and bridges. Late last week Russian air force commander General Anatoly Kornukov said he needed a week to 10 days to finish his offensive...