Word: tub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While they shuffle through the orderly single-file maze of the serving line, we twirl spastically from one tub to another, careening around arms and flailing scoops to finally smack cups onto the counter, then pivot to the register, ducking around cone-wielding scoopers. It's a sport more intricate than basketball, with the interesting complication that the other team is working with the wrong set of rules...
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...northern Idaho and eastern Washington are typically rugged farmers, loggers and miners who work hard for a living. But if Washington Water Power, the region's main utility, has its way, some of them may be turning into laid-back sybarites, luxuriating their leisure hours away in hot tubs. The area's sluggish economy has led to a slump in electricity usage, so W.W.P. is trying to boost energy consumption by offering customers $250 in cash toward the purchase of a new hot tub. Utility officials say that each tub uses about 5,200 kW-h per year, roughly equivalent...
...lovely the going will be in the new plane for the 70 passengers and 23 crew. The President and his wife will be tucked up in a spacious bedroom in the nose, complete with vanity, closets, lavatory and shower-tub. There will be a commodious presidential office, conference room, staff lounge, working stations with computers, guest area and a ward for the media, with telex terminals, in the tail. A tiny hospital will be wedged in and maybe even a meeting room for the First Lady. Upstairs will be communications gear and crew quarters...
...same time the office contracts internally, it will expand into the greater Harvard community by stepping up aid to the financially struggling graduate schools. Since each graduate school is responsible for soliciting its own donations, a system known as "every tub on its own bottom," the schools with the richest alumni roll in the money, while the poorest schools struggle with debt. While the Medical School, the richest graduate school, will mount a $200 million fund drive this summer, the Divinity and Design Schools are trying to stay out of the debt that they suffered last year...