Word: pipes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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University construction officials have begun investigating why an underground water pipe near the Kennedy School of Government burst last Wednesday evening, flooding the K-School's basement and causing a partial blackout at several University buildings...
Investigators have advanced several theories for the pipe rupture, which dumped five inches of water into the basement library and offices and knocked out power at the K-School, Holyoke Center, Massachusetts Hall, Pusey Library, Canaday Hall, Lowell House, and the Graduate School of Design headquarters in Gund Hall...
...pipes may have burst because of vibrations from jackhammers working on the adjacent new K-School wing, because the original pipe design was faulty, or because the pipe was inadequately fastened to the Kennedy St. water main, Robert Saltonstall Jr. Associate Vice President of Operations, said yesterday...
...lessons learned about the water pipes after the investigation would be applied to the water pipe construction in the new wing, which is to be completed in early 1984. Saltonstall said...
...pipe-smoking man with a passion for Shakespeare, Adelman is a relatively pragmatic Republican who shares President Reagan's abiding mistrust of the Soviet Union. Adelman is convinced, says a former associate, that the U.S. "must negotiate from strength." One Western diplomat calls his speeches at the U.N. "some of the most ferocious language heard around here since the cold...