Word: roof
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Construction workers are busy polishing the "jewel" that is the Maxwell Dworkin building, the University's $26 million effort to unify under one roof the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) and the computer sciences at Harvard...
...factory. In an odd twist, Mercedes saves more than $70 million by shipping components from its plant in Tuscaloosa, Ala., back to Europe for assembly alongside the Jeep. "There was the distinct opinion on the Mercedes side that we would never build a Mercedes under a Chrysler roof," says Schrempp, with a smug grin. "We're doing it already...
...that already includes LaToya Jackson among its spokespeople, that's hardly grounds for disqualification. And so last month a Florida company approached Jones to lend her name to a psychic hot line, an offer she accepted without first consulting her husband, her attorney or even LaToya. "I hit the roof when I found out," says Susan Carpenter-McMillan, Jones' longtime adviser. "It's the most demeaning thing, and it flies in the face of everything [Paula and I] believe in religiously." When Jones later expressed misgivings about the enterprise, she was informed that the contract is legally binding. So while...
...table and a writing desk, the former shorter than the latter so that typing didn t involve the praying mantis posture that Harvard desks necessitate. The Sisyphean struggle of the scrivener Nipper in Herman Melville s "Bartleby the Scrivener"-first tilting his writing table to angle of the "steep roof of a Dutch house" to ease his back, then lowering the table "to his waistbands" and stooping over when it stopped the circulation in his arms, then again tilting the table up-show that the issue of ergonomics in the workplace predates even the typewriter...
...separate project yesterday, workers used cranes in efforts to remove paint from a lower part of the Memorial Church roof...