Word: sinkful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...compressed air. Suddenly buoyant, the gates swing on their hinges like the jaws of a crocodile, rising to a 45 degrees angle, with the top about 3 ft. above the surface of the waves. After the storm has passed, water is pumped back into the gates, allowing them to sink back out of sight...
Despite the efforts of Tampa Bay Bandits' owner John Bassett, the league went ahead with the planned move away from spring football despite the added burden of the bankrupt Los Angeles franchise abandoned by Oldenburg. The USFL didn't take long to sink after the league's failed lawsuit attempt against...
Another member of the program, Lischen Singare, says that when one becomes self-supporting, "You're trying to swim and you might sink or drown. You really do need support when you're on your own." Singare--who has two young children--has begun her own business marketing educational materials that have a multi-cultural emphasis. She says the courses she has taken at Radcliffe have facilitated her endeavors...
...Chiangmai, the cool northern town in the hills with something of the impenetrable allure of old China. Here one imagines the ghosts of opium warlords in the nearby Golden Triangle, or catches the sense of Viet Nam as one floats along the Mekong. Other, less adventurous souls simply sink into one of Thailand's seaside dreams: Pattaya, the "sea, sand and sin" city just 90 minutes from Bangkok; or Phuket, a Tahitian strip of bungalows along the emerald-green Andaman Sea that is home to Club Med and a host of other beach resorts; or, for the bargain-seeking pleasure...
Elsewhere, street people are said to be the problem. "We had a woman in there one day," says the owner of a gas station just off Capitol Hill. "They saw water running under the door. She was giving herself a bath right out of the sink." But he is an optimist ("At least I got a clean floor"), and he still provides rest-room keys, selectively. Other businesses put their rest rooms permanently out of order...