Word: roof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decision pitting tradition against technological progress, Harvard administrators chose Wednesday to abandon a plan to install a communications satellite on the roof of Massachusetts Hall...
...sold 6 million copies worldwide and grossed more than $50 million for EMI Records (whose stars range from Sinaad O'Connor to Digable Planets), Laurentino de Buruaga, the group's choirmaster, complains that the monks have earned a paltry $40,000 from it--hardly enough to patch the leaking roof over their medieval cloister. In response, the monks have followed the example of secular recording stars from time immemorial: they've switched labels. Their new CD, The Soul of Chant, was released last month by Milan Records, a smaller classical label...
...basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news . When you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles. --Edward R. Murrow...
...during her extended family's annual June sojourn at the Delaware shore, Delia takes a walk down the beach and veers right toward their rented cottage, where she hitches a ride with the roof repairman. Some time later, she gets out at a small inland town and sets about buying some clothes to substitute for her swim togs. After that, she must find food and a place to sleep. Larger questions, such as what on earth she thinks she is doing, are submerged in the search for necessities...
...police helicopter, a Eurocopter AS-350B, plunged from the sky and tore through the roof of the HarvardYacht Club on February 22. The passengers, twostate police pilots and two American Telephone andTelegraph (AT&T) technicians, died in the impact.The AT&T employees were being taken from Boston toNorfolk airport in order to do work for a statecontract...