Word: steams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the return of colder weather, Harvard's 5.5 miles of steam tunnels will carry up to 230,000 pounds of steam daily until winter...
...Egyptians." That prompted President Reagan's "Never" response, raising the public dimension of the crisis another notch. But already U.S. diplomats in Cairo were suspecting that Mubarak's outrage, while honest enough, was also part of a calculated effort to let the volatile Egyptian populace blow off steam over the EgyptAir incident. In the days ahead, Mubarak's tone would slowly moderate; meanwhile he staved off appeals from both left- and right-wing opposition parties calling for specific retaliatory measures against...
...fictional country in Central America. The rest of the film is devoted to Schwarzenegger's pursuit of his enemies. He shoots them, drops them off cliffs, slits their throats, chops off their arms, breaks their necks, and blows them up. And, oh, yes: he also punches a steam pipe through his archenemy. "Let off some steam," he snarls--not exactly Noel Coward wit, but it is one of Schwarzenegger's favorite lines in the script. "The thing that separates me from the rest of the action leads, like Stallone, Eastwood and Norris, is that I bring in all this humor...
Today the Security Council exists mostly as a place to let off steam. Former Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick has called it a "Turkish bath." Laments Brian Urquhart, Under Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs: "There are moments when I feel that only an invasion from outer space will reintroduce into the Security Council that unanimity and spirit which the founders of the charter were talking about...
...main problem was the sheer number of people who used the bathroom facilities, Quinn said. Those serving an entire floor were used by 15 to 25 people, and therefore suffered more than bathrooms used by just a suite. And in Canaday Hall, ventilation systems couldn't deal with steam from the showers and had to be rebuilt...