Word: roof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most significant cost difference appears on repairs to the roof-which became a principal part of the task force's argument when one of the University's experts testified he did not find structural damage there. The 1981 document called for resurfacing the roof at a cost of $30.000, while the current plan recommends completely rebuilding the area at a cost...
Terrorist bombings have become familiar events to everyone but survivors near by. For them, something in reality irrevocably snaps in the explosion: "All they could speak of, if they could speak at all, was the road tipping, or a chimney stack silently lifting off the roof across the way, or the gale ripping through their houses, how it stretched their skin, thumped them, knocked them down, blew the flowers out of the vases and the vases against the wall. They remembered the tinkling of falling glass all right, and the timid brushing noise of the young foliage hitting the road...
...Unfreezing her hands, Charlie set down her little girl and started to clap too. . . and now it was the turn of the fishermen's union, represented by a sedate yellow van decked in pictures of Arafat, with a giant paper fish, painted red, white and black, on its roof... The planes disappeared. Palestine had won another victory...
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...roof of the mine more than 1100 feet below the surface collapsed Monday after the two methane gas blasts...