Word: reach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed a beep machine seemed superfluous considering someone had already installed a phone by the empty bed beside me which kept on ringing with calls for someone named "Herman." The telephone lay just out of my reach, waiting silently for the precise moment of my dream when the girl comes in. Then it would ring, I would jump, and some nimrod on the other end would ask for "Herman" or hang up at the sound of my enraged greeting. I thought maybe the nurses were calling the number and then laughing hysterically when I answered. I asked for the extra...
...Coors could not agree on the causes of the strike; they could not reach a settlement either. Indeed, the resulting strike has yet to be resolved, although over two-thirds of the striking workers have returned to the brewery. Almost two years after the strike's start, the non-striking workers voted to decertify the AFL-CIO affiliate, Brewery Workers Local 366. The striking workers were unable to vote in the decertification election...
Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, proposed that the super-powers reach an agreement apart from other arms negotiations on eliminating medium-range missiles from Europe in five years...
Sunday night only one of three elevators in the building was working. After the first company of firefighters used it to reach the fire, the second company was forced to walk nine flights up. Murphy said this was not unusual for this building and that firefighters have had to walk up to the 22nd floor on occasion...
...engineering marvels of the world. At one end of the 50-mile-long waterway, the 12,000 ships that traverse it annually are lifted 85 ft. above sea level by a series of locks, enabling them to sail through the mountainous spine of the Panama Isthmus. When they reach the opposite coast, another set of locks floats them gently back down to the ocean...