Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prevent it from recurring. Yet the threat from the air has been a secret worry for some time. The CIA often war-gamed terrorist attacks on the 18-acre White House complex and concluded each time that little could be done, short of installing unsightly Gatling guns on the roof. During the Gulf War, uniformed air-defense teams could be seen patrolling the top floor with automatic rifles or shoulder-mounted ground-to-air missiles. In theory the air-defense teams could take out a threatening plane if it could be spotted, identified and targeted in time. In practice...
English Department Chair Leo Damrosch says he is delighted that the department will be under one roof. The original conception of a united humanities complex was "probably always a fantasy," he says...
...There is a brand-new, beautiful, non-leaky roof," Knuff says. "Canaday looks like it's gotten a nice facelift...
Besides replacing the chronically leaking roof, workers also renovated all bathrooms, corridors and stairwells, and installed ventilation systems. Canaday B has a new entry ramp and suites for disabled students on its first floor, and an elevator was installed between the C and D entryways...
...group of 11 floated up onto the fine white sands of Hallandale beach on the roof of a bus, which they had saved their money for years to buy. When they finally saw lights after eight days at sea, "we didn't know it was Miami, but we knew it couldn't be Havana," says Jorge Luis Diaz, 29, "because there's no electricity there, and no lights." As they gratefully reunited with family members in Little Havana, Attorney General Reno was announcing the new U.S. detention policy. Unaware of their close call, they all had one goal in mind...