Word: vendors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disabled person knows, it is often the small gesture that can make an inhospitable world seem welcoming. After a sunglasses vendor in Palatine, Illinois, advertised her sign-language skills, people with hearing impairments flocked to her stand to discuss frame shapes and lens tints. At the Chicago Botanic Garden, shelves and pulley systems enable wheelchair users to inspect a special exhibit. In the rest rooms there, a cheap innovation safeguards the disabled from the nasty scaldings their legs routinely endure in public places: the hot-water pipes beneath the sinks are wrapped with insulation. When a business takes the time...
...provoked by a reading of Sleepers. Internal contradictions pile up. "We followed every pro sport with religious fervor and adolescent passion," Carcaterra writes on one page. On the next: "We cared little for Knicks basketball and barely tolerated Giants football." The author writes emotionally of a Greek hot-dog vendor he and his friends robbed: "We never saw the tiny, airless fourth-floor room he lived in, a 40-minute walk from his station, its only comfort a tattered collection of pictures from home, crudely taped to the wall nearest the worn mattress of his bed. We never...
...number of clauses in the original measure were left unchanged. Every tobacco vendor will be required to obtain a tobacco sales permit from the city. Vendors will also be required to demand proof of age, with photo...
...Right after this injury happened, I ordered acomplete check to make sure all the safetyswitches on the movable stacks were workingproperly," he said yesterday. "We then contactedthe vendor of the stacks, and set a meeting forthis Thursday to discuss additional safetydevices...
...woman friend, a cyclingrace director who finally broke her pattern of diddling mountain bikers, discovered that while a popcorn vendor might not look as hot in Lycra, he will ride the extra mile with energy to spare. Plus, he has snacks when you're finished...