Word: roof
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Reproductive Services, which operates abortion clinics in six cities in Texas and one in Oklahoma, has teamed up with Adoption Affiliates, a newly founded child-placement agency, to offer both services under one roof. The San Antonio clinic and its affiliates are counseling a dozen pregnant women who may give up their infants for adoption. Previously the clinic was turning away two or more women a week who were ineligible for abortions...
Employees of Dec Tam Asbestos Removal--whom EHS hired--"have just about completed removing the panels from the water tower," and are currently stacking the panels on the Science Center roof, Curtin said. She said that she expects the panels to be removed by the end of this week...
...problematic Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. I remember the arguments against building the dome years ago--mainly that spectating in the dome would be like sitting in an inflated hefty bag, that could pop any time. (They were right, and under the weight of a heavy snow cover, the roof has caved...
...combination of Hamlet and devil's advocate, dwelling on the negatives. His mother Pauline moderated. "Dammit," said her husband afterward, "I think he's talked himself out of it." But his son telephoned the next day: "Dad, it's go." Recalls Albert Sr.: "I knocked a hole in the roof with a Comanche yell." Pauline explains, "I think my son had to establish that it would be his campaign and that he'd be doing it in his own way." Jane Eskind, an admiring fellow Tennessee Democrat, observes, "Albert Sr. sees in Al Jr. the fulfillment of his own dreams...
...ever. Gore was born in Washington and spent much of his childhood on Embassy Row in the Fairfax Hotel, where his parents had an apartment. He fondly remembers climbing onto the roof and hurling water balloons down on the cars on Massachusetts Avenue. He was an honor student and captain of the football team at the patrician St. Alban's School. He met Tipper (a childhood nickname; her real name is Mary Elizabeth) at his St. Alban's graduation party. John Davis, who taught Gore church history, remembers him as the straightest arrow in the quiver, someone whose only evident...