Word: toilets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Susan Livingston, assistant to the NorthHouse master, said, "I've had no complaints sofar. There's always problems with a new buildinglike the toilet doesn't work, but so fareverything has been easily correctable...
...would not normally engage ordinary workers, but the protests have worsened dislocations created by Deng's economic reforms. In Shanghai, Peking and other Chinese cities, reports have circulated of panic buying and hoarding in anticipation of price increases that are part of the government's deregulation program. Noodles, rice, toilet paper and matches are said to be out of stock in many stores. Declared a Peking intellectual: "The ordinary masses might not be able to relate to calls for democracy, but they sure would take to the pavement if the issue turns to price increases...
Olebogeng will stay for three months, building a fence for his parents and doing other chores; he hopes that someday they will have a few luxuries, like electricity or running water or an indoor toilet. He will also court his girlfriend Mary. "I miss her all the time, but I can't help being away," he said. "I have to work." Nervous about what to buy her for Christmas, he promised to take her to the nearest town, more than 40 miles away, and let her select a gift...
...turned out that the Johnston gate guardhouse was five feet square, which worked out to a construction cost of $1,000 per square foot. So for $37,000, Rockbottom said, he could put up a building six feet square and have $1,000 left over to buy a toilet seat from the Air Force...
...lows in much of the country, bringing the plight of the homeless, both old and new, to an early crisis as shelters everywhere brimmed over with people escaping the cold. Some could not escape: in Kansas City two homeless men were found frozen to death, one in a portable toilet at a downtown parking lot, the other in a construction-site trailer...