Word: piped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Videla seized upon the World Cup as a means of taking the Argentines' minds off their many troubles. And never mind the $700 million officially (and conservatively) estimated cost of building or renovating six stadiums and several airports, and of constructing the color television broadcasting system necessary to pipe the World Cup to the world...
...qualified electors," the city council took the precaution of passing such items as higher business and animal license charges, and building, plumbing and electrical permit fees before election day. One woman paid $125 for a permit to build a sewer line from her house to the main pipe; if she had come the day before, her charge would have been...
Jarvis, his third wife and her sister live in an unpretentious two-bedroom, $80,000 house (on which he annually pays $1,800 in taxes based on a 1976 assessment) in West Los Angeles. Though he was raised as a Mormon, he drinks vodka and smokes a pipe as well as cigars. He spends most of his days in a cluttered downtown office, dividing his time between his duties as un-salaried chairman of the taxpayers' group and paid director ($17,000 a year) of the Apartment Association of Los Angeles County, a landlords' organization. He devotes hours...
Rarely, if ever, do Harvard students anger him, even when they do things like let a pet cobra loose in the House--as one Adams resident did a few years ago when Richardson was on duty--or break a sprinkler system pipe doing chin-ups on it, the work of another Adams House student earlier this spring...
...cajoling for the dean. Now Rosovsky is King of the Hill, exulting in the moment of triumph, the questioning by the major newspaper reporters, the clicking of the shutters. President Bok enters and rewards Rosovsky with a bottle of his favorite cognac; the smile broadens around the ever-present pipe. In a few minutes the press conference is over, and the dean, dangling a keychain with an applecore charm, heads off for home, talking about taking "a bath in champagne." It is the high point in a long and trying year for Henry Rosovsky...