Word: wheelchairs
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...Square was too strident. There are only so many times you can sit through the midnight movies or eat ice cream on Bailey's shaky chairs. There are only so many people reading poetry by the Charles you can stand--especially if you're working in a wheelchair factory. It behooved you to make the hundred bucks. You have a shit job and after a while you feel like shit. One afternoon in Hamilton, someone came by under the palm trees muttering and shaking his head. My friends thought it might be another assassination--it was that kind of muttering...
...opposition is Crested Butte's paraplegic mayor, an émigré from Aspen who likes to style himself as simply W (no period) Mitchell. (He was born William John Schiff III in Philadelphia, but adopted his stepfather's name.) For the past four years, the wheelchair-bound Mitchell, 38, who was badly burned in a motorcycle accident ten years ago and paralyzed in a plane crash four years later, has tirelessly attacked AMAX and questioned its assurances that the mine will do no harm. Noting that up to 20,000 tons of ore will be removed every...
...days after he'd heard of his admission and a week before he was slated to give Riverside's valedictory address, Hamlin shattered his leg in a severe highway accident. The break, however, did not prevent him from giving the address in a wheelchair and a full-leg cast. "I would've crawled up onstage if I'd had to," he recalls...
When Harvard Real Estate (HRE) decided to purchase and renovate an apartment building at 18-20 Ware Street, it encountered a costly problem: the size of the project seemed to mean that to comply with state law, HRE would be forced to install concrete wheelchair ramps and other equipment to make the building accessible to handicapped people...
...construction cost of between 5% and 25% of the market value where construction value exceeds $50,000, "that portion of the work being done shall comply" plus an "accessible entrance and a toilet useable by a person in a wheelchair shall be provided." I questioned the toilet and the Board's secretary said that this wouldn't apply in the case of an apartment house...