Word: pipes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Officials believe a vandal probably pulled a pipe from a wall at Morse College, sending gallons of water down stairwells, drenching four floors and two entryways...
Last October, a man with a pipe attacked an armored-car employee at the mall. Also that month, a masked man with a gun attempted to hold up the cash office at the Galleria's Sears store...
Your cable line, by contrast, has enough data-carrying capacity--or bandwidth--to deliver 60 or 70 channels of live video the instant you turn on the tube. It is, in high-tech parlance, a very fat "pipe"--some 300 times as fat as "twisted pair" copper phone lines. What if, the cable industry breathlessly asks, some of that bandwidth could be diverted to the Internet? How might entertainment and commerce--not to mention the industry's bottom line--be transformed...
Wilmot said he believes the University should pay for the students' damages. He said Lowell House Superintendent Jay W. Coveney and his assistant told him the flooding was caused by a broken toilet pipe...
...worst things for a newsmagazine is a long drought of news. Almost as challenging is being hit with two stories the same week. Sometimes they pair interestingly in our minds and on our cover: Kerri Strug's golden heart and a two-bit pipe bomber's tarnished mind allow us to grapple with the courage and cowardice of the human soul. But sometimes the stories are eerily disparate, hard to balance in our minds because the relative weight of each seems more difficult to calculate the closer together we bring them...