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...Hire washroom attendents. Not only would it be infinitely classy to have someone hand you a towel every time you wash your hands, but these attendents could keep an eye out for suspicious-looking people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO COMBO, NO TINKLE | 3/2/1996 | See Source »

Ronna Johnson, a professor at Tufts, fell on the threshold between the washroom and shower room in the women's locker room of the MAC on April 4, 1992. She filed suit on August...

Author: By Terry H. Lanson, | Title: Woman Says Harvard Covered Up Evidence | 10/15/1994 | See Source »

Something has happened in the world, and we sense that it is along the lines of an Orwellian Big Brother phenomenon (could it be the television monitor perched near the ceiling, fixed on the characters below?). Ada and Meg (Yvonne Roemer and Calysta Drake) are chief-and assistant-washroom attendants, who encounter a series of women seeking a warm place to eat breakfast, to relieve themselves, and to expound their views on why men are wonderful and warm, beastly or boring...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: A Brave New World At the Loeb Ex | 11/18/1993 | See Source »

...boarded a flight from Seattle to Pittsburgh last month. Airline personnel asked the couple to disembark, and a gate supervisor informed them that both the crew and assorted passengers had complained about their offensive body odor. Freeman and Omrani, an Iranian national, were given toiletries and sent to the washroom as the plane left without them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: Offensive Behavior | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

Outside class, students led a grim existence. Gorbachev spent the first three of his student years in the shabby Stromynka student hostel, an 18th century former barracks that housed 10,000 young people packed eight or more to a room. There was a kitchen and a washroom on each floor, but no proper bathing facilities. Gorbachev and his roommates would head to a public bathhouse twice a month. They stored their personal belongings in suitcases under the beds. Many of the youths could not even afford tea. Instead, they drank "student tea," a concoction of hot water and sugar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Education of Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

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