Word: roof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition to providing many damning statistics about the New Haven school in his article, Sedgwick cites several instances of physical erosion on campus, such as the caving in of a lecture hall roof. He also characterizes New Haven as a "war zone...
Ouchark's office is so small, he barely has room to move--literally. He works on four computers monitors on two desks in a room title bigger than some jail cells. Books and computer manuals are stacked to the roof. The shelves are bursting at their seams. There are no windows...
...going to do bathroom and roof repair. That should make everybody cheer," Leviton said...
With each of the aftershocks, which have totaled more than 5,000 of varying intensity, the fears have assumed a pervasive, even obsessive dimension. One store reported a sudden boom in $2,000 steel-canopy beds capable of withstanding "an entire collapsing roof." Conversations are dominated by the quake. True tales of the fateful moment at 4:31 a.m. are told and retold: how in one Sherman Oaks home a water bed went wild, flipped its occupant against the ceiling and then heaved him against the wall as though to suffocate...
...United States Naval Academy in June of 1990, and stayed there for a week. I attended classes with other participants in this program ate meals in King Hall with Academy midshipmen and slept in Bancroft Hall, the largest single dormitory in the country--4,400 students under one roof with miles of corridors...