Word: sprinklers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...labor agreements, displaced first-years and sprinkler systems...
Roughly half the ceiling at the National Restaurant Association's headquarters in Washington has been torn out to make way for a new sprinkler system. Though unintentional, it's a fitting symbol of President Clinton's proposal to install a 50% ceiling on the deductibility of business meals. Unfortunately, nobody at this 75-year-old trade association is in the mood for irony. "If the government keeps going the way it is, you won't have any fine- dining establishments in America," grumbles chief executive William Fisher, as he chows down a power lunch at nearby Mo Sussman's restaurant...
Maher's hands here after the game, and she almost set off the gymnasium's sprinkler system...
Installation of sprinkler systems legally required for high rise buildings would have disturbed asbestos fibers originally sprayed above the ceilings as fire-insulation, Gallant said...
...last year when a hydraulic line that ran the conveyor belt ruptured and sprayed flammable fluid that ignited, incinerating 25 employees. Horror swiftly turned to outrage when it was learned that the high death count was the result of illegally locked plant doors and the absence of a sprinkler system...