Word: poole
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said: Where would you train? You can't train in the Harlem River; you lose seven or eight guys a year drowning, which is true. And he said you can't go to the ocean. The water's too rough. He said you can't go to the public pool; everybody's trying to cool off. Everything he said made sense. So I started to walk off like with my lip stuck out. And he tapped me on the shoulder and he said: Look, man, the heaviest hasn't come yet. They have private clubs, but you can't join...
...years are required for neophyte controllers to be fully certified, so many council organizers favor rehiring some of the fired controllers. That would embarrass the Reagan Administration, which made much of its toughness when It fired the controllers. But if air traffic continues to increase, the nation's pool of qualified controllers may be the resource most readily available for ending the delays without compromising air safety...
...Whittier College in California last month, Elderhostelers began their day at 8 a.m. with breakfast followed by a 9 o'clock class called American Politics on Film. A 10:30 class offered hands-on training with Apple computers. Afternoons, everyone hopped into the shallow end of the college pool for a course called Aquasize, or aquatic exercise. Dinner was at 6 p.m., followed by a 7 p.m. screening of the movie to be discussed at the next morning's politics class...
...Manhattan, Arquitectonica faced the problem of considerably enlarging a seven-story brick apartment house without disturbing it. The solution: a slim, new, 35-story tower that straddles the old building. The new building is abruptly interrupted by a kind of roof garden with a domed swimming pool and a jogging track. Arquitectonica plans to deck out the building's façade in a bold, Mari-mekko-like pattern of white glass, black marble and red-enameled metal...
...transport people, film and copy through the jammed streets. To serve as drivers, she has recruited off-duty fire fighters. Says she: "They know the city and how to get around it fast better than almost anyone." Her opinion may be a bit biased: the fire-fighter driver pool includes her husband Gregory...