Word: shafted
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Lieutenant Charles Schwab of the department said he had received complaints from people inside the Center.Occupants complained that leaves and other debriscaught on fire when lit cigarette butts fallthrough the grates, sending smoke into thebuilding via the air shaft, Schwab said...
Some gear actually does work a little better than the earlier models it is supposed to supersede. At Easton Aluminum's big test lab in California's San Fernando Valley, techies have succeeded in stiffening the "flex" of an arrow's aluminum shaft by thirty-thousandths of an inch. Result? A faster arrow and reduced wind resistance. But after radical sports-gear breakthroughs (big-head tennis racquets and golf clubs, high-back plastic ski boots), the improvements are marginal and often largely cosmetic. Mountain bikes, for instance, are madly popular everywhere, but they are not really all that useful...
Overall, however, Boiling Point solidly persuades us that what Bill Clinton made a campaign of saying--that the middle class got the shaft during the '80s--was in fact true...
Accounts of the execution agree that the victims were shot, but vary as to what happened to the bodies. Among the reports: they were doused with sulfuric acid, cremated or tossed into a mine shaft. The research team found some evidence to support parts of the stories. The teeth and bones, for instance, show etching and whitening indicative of acid. One surprise was that Czar Nicholas appeared to have had little dental care and suffered from severe periodontal disease. The Czarina, on the other hand, had highly sophisticated dental work, including porcelain crowns...
...Weld construction is a colossal project in large part because of the elevator shaft. Next year, Weld Hall will be the only fully handicapped-accessible dorm in the Yard. The tall stairs--four painful, thigh-burning flights that made my roommates and I wheeze and puff for an entire year--will no longer block students from visiting any Weld rooms...