Word: roofing
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...workers said that during his tenure at Columbia, Stone revitalized the public relations of the university. Stone arrived as the first vice president of a newly integrated public affairs division, which combined government, community and communications concerns under a single roof...
...choked up on adrenaline, daring anyone to knock the chip off his shoulder. Not good qualities for most jobs--unless you need to suit up every day against an adversary like fire. He made some spectacular rescues, including a courageous save as a lieutenant in 1991 on the roof of a midtown office building: Brown and two of his men held an inch-thick rope in their bare hands and, straining and skidding toward the parapet, lowered two fire fighters, one at a time, down into black, billowing smoke; each man grabbed a panicky victim from a windowsill perch...
...Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt worked together to demonstrate that the war overseas would be won only by preserving American liberty at home. The week after the raid, the Secret Service suggested a list of security measures at the White House: camouflaging the building, placing machine guns on the roof, covering the skylights with sand and tin. Roosevelt rejected most of the suggestions, to show that the capital stood unbowed--much as, a century earlier, Abraham Lincoln insisted that the construction of the Capitol dome be completed in the midst of the Civil War. Similarly, on Tuesday President Bush decided...
...Robbason ran to the 20th floor roof of his office building, he remembered joking once to his coworkers at BuzzMetrics that if anyone tried to blow up the towers, their office would be crushed. Now he could clearly see the gaping hole where the plane had entered the building...
...ended some 10 km back and 1,300 m below. A bank of wild marijuana was on our left, and a series of terraces on our right led down to a sheer 500-m drop into a river gorge. A priest had just decapitated a goat on the flat roof of a house. He lifted the animal's head to the sun, slowly turning so that all could see. Then his assistants cut off its hooves and placed one each at the four corners of the building. None of the villagers was quite sure what the sacrifice was for. Some...