Word: pipes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Private contractors, who have been replacing sewers and pipes beneath Mill St. for five weeks, repaired the broken water main after Buildings and Grounds workers had accidently forced too much water into the pipe Friday night...
...giant subway-entrance staircase, complete with fluorescent "Red Line" sign on top--in itself does no violence to the work. Nothing in The Magic Flute rules out this approach. But after three hours of characters scurrying up and down the stairs and rotating the structure on its metal-pipe supports, nothing emerges from The Magic Flute to give the approach any coherence or sense either...
...asking the automobile industry to shape up, we should all remember that the fault for its current troubles lies not only with the Big Three, but with the entire nation. Our appetite for large and expensive gas-guzzlers has for too long been fed by the pipe dream of cheap gasoline prices. In fact, expectations during the '70s that oil would remain cheap stymied Detroit's efforts to sell an array of smaller models at a profit. The Japanese have shown us that we no longer possess a monopoly on technological creativity and innovation. Spurred by the Japanese example...
...constantly, checking vital signs and taking blood samples; monitors hooked up to patients beep incessantly. Reagan was given antibiotics to combat possible infections and pain medication to ease his moderate discomfort, more the result of the operation than the bullet injury. Dur ing the night, doctors removed the wind pipe tube that had been left in place after surgery to facilitate breathing...
...consciously serpentine wreathing of its leaves proclaims the image to be formed as much by style as by the impulse to "objective" description. The two work perfectly together. To see why, one may look at the most famous of his water studies, the image of water gushing from a pipe into a cistern. There seems to be no doubt, as Kenneth Clark pointed out a generation ago, that Leonardo's eye was preternaturally fast; he could grasp and isolate fractions of movement in time with a precision that would only be confirmed, more than four centuries later, by strobe...