Word: stainless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with "cheap" walls and peeling paint, particularly in bathrooms, follow past difficulties with leaking roofs and occasionally erratic hot water. "The roof is a continuing, lingering problem," William H. Marquess, senior advisor to Canaday, says. The leaky roof seems to be a design defect, many officials say. Specifically, a stainless steel roof and gutter system expands and contracts with fluctuations in temperature, creating cracks, Frand A. Marciano, superintendent in Buildings and Grounds, says. "Some of the roofing problems are going to be cleared up this summer," with the realignment of gutters, Marciano adds; in the past, efforts at preventing leaks...
...since Walter Chrysler opened his first assembly line in 1925: launch a successful new mass-production auto company. The De Lorean is a low-riding, two-seat sports car that seems more suitable for Monte Carlo than Main Street. Two of the vehicle's distinctive features: a brushed stainless-steel finish expected to be rustproof for at least 25 years and unusual gull-wing doors that open up instead of swinging out and make it simple for someone as lanky as the 6-ft. 4-in. De Lorean to nestle into the plush leather seats...
...Louis has long been loved as a city of beer and baseball, riverboats and tree-lined avenues, French fur traders, German burghers, and that distinctive 630-ft.-high stainless-steel arch, a symbol of the city's historic role as "Gateway to the West." At the turn of the century, St. Louis was the nation's fourth largest city. It is the birthplace of T.S. Eliot, the ice cream cone and, some say, the blues...
...slayer. Cherie Lunghi too closely resembles a Covent Garden flower child to bring Guenevere to mature life, but her callow modernity wreathes Excalibur in later ideals of post-courtly love. Nicholas Clay makes an athletic Lancelot: he could be a dashing soldier of fortune or a knight in stainless steel...
...wear makeup, perfume or deodorant. At each meal she eats only one dish-ranging from organically grown vegetables to wild game such as bear and lion-prepared in aluminum pans. She drinks water drawn from several natural springs. Later in her treatment, she will spend time in a stainless steel booth, being exposed to small amounts of gas fumes, formaldehyde, insecticide, perfume and smoke. Rossall records her reactions to every meal and chemical test in a diary...