Word: pane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Workmen are still wandering through the halls, rats are being chased in the basement, and bulletproof glass is being installed in David Letterman's office. Not really bulletproof; that's just the way Letterman likes to describe the protective pane designed to prevent him from accidentally tossing a baseball right through the glass, as he did once at his old NBC office, raining shards on pedestrians below. But Letterman is already gushing over his unfinished suite as if he had just moved into Windsor Castle. "Look at | this," he says, striding into the room in his workaday outfit...
Demong said the current single pane windows, which tenants have complained lead to drafts in the winter, will be replaced with more efficient thermal-pane windows...
Beyong the wide expanse of pane glass windows, beyond the cluster of skyscrapers that house the headquarters of some of the area's biggest banks, beyond the gold dome of the State House glittering in the late afternoon sun, the Charles River meanders by in the distance...
...manage to get there, the sessions can be heartrending. Some facilities, including the Georgia Women's Correctional Institution at Hardwick, where Rachals is housed, have created bright, toy-filled visiting rooms, but more often the quarters are grim and frightening. In Chicago's Cook County jail, a thick glass pane separates family visitors from prisoners. "It's a terrifying thing for a child to reach out and try to touch his mother, and find out he can't," says Gail Smith, who heads Chicago Legal Aid to Incarcerated Mothers...
...cracked pane is 133 inches long and is thicker than ordinary window glass, Gordon said, adding that a replacement will have to be custom-made...