Word: sprinklers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...before trying to jump a fence into a neighboring yard. Animal-control officials killed the 97-lb. male and later discovered that it hadn't eaten in days. In other places, pumas invade yards to steal away dogs and other pets--or simply to cool off at the garden sprinkler. One big cat even wandered into a mall in Montecito, Calif. "The intensity of the sightings has increased," says Howard Quigley, a senior wildlife biologist and cougar expert at the Hornocker Wildlife Institute in Idaho. "We get phone calls every week...
Harvard will install heating, air conditioning and ventilation systems, as well as sprinkler mechanisms and improved smoke detection. Study carrels will be networked and ultraviolet filters will be put on the windows...
Larissa Tsibliyev knew better than to interrupt her husband, so it was hard for her to speak up when Gagarin, the couple's beloved terrier, keeled over from the oven fumes. Too, she held her peace when the water sprinkler finally kicked in, knowing that the fire department would eventually turn the system off when it came to fight the blaze Vasily had started in the trash bin under the window. Larissa felt it was her duty not to criticize at home when things were going so poorly at work...
Things aren't going so swimmingly for Strug's sister in pharyngeal disadvantage, Kathy Ireland. Authorities busted a sweatshop in New York, where workers were locked in and the sprinkler system was broken. The clothes made there for K Mart bore Ireland's label. "I will not, and K Mart will not, tolerate unscrupulous practices in the manufacture of my products," said the swimsuit model...
...Willie Kane, our graduate board president,told us to refer calls about this to him,"Sprinkler said yesterday...