Word: seat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Your police department is known for roughing up innocent civilians? Hey, no problem! It's all taken in stride in the rough-and-tumble world of New York politics. Just ask Al D'Amato. Empire State voters should simply understand that their likely candidates for the 2000 Senate seat are far from saintly. But maybe they like it that...
...Pontiff's and a cultlike figure to many other Catholics. Last year 7 million pilgrims--more than went to Lourdes--trekked to the remote hillside village of Italy's San Giovanni Rotondo, where he's buried; the village bustles with the construction of hotels and a church that will seat...
...nation, run out of places to sit. The disquieting proof of our spreading behinds came to me via an admirably thorough piece by Rene Sanchez in the Washington Post, a piece that confirmed a vague feeling I'd been having on the subway lately that the seat running along most of the length of the car seemed awfully crowded considering how few people were sitting...
According to Sanchez's research, the 18-in.-per-bottom measurement traditionally used by seat engineers is now considered obsolete. Puget Sound ferries that once seated 250 Seattle commuters comfortably have been forced to carry fewer passengers because of what was diagnosed, after some study, as posterior creep. A seating consultant has advised a Seattle theater that's under restoration to include a few dozen 24-in. seats, and is training staff members "how to make subtle overtures to obese patrons who might not be aware of the special seating available to them at the theater...
...like to see those training sessions. Could it be that the ticket line is routed through an opening that measures fanny width in the way those templates that some airlines put on airport X-ray machines weed out carry-on bags that won't fit under the seat or in the overhead rack? Probably not. It's more likely that ticket takers are trained to eyeball patrons from the rear, in a swift and nonthreatening manner, and give the extra-large-approaching signal (maybe a quick puffing out of the cheeks) to an usher, who then asks, with a helpful...