Word: floor
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Nobody's asking for reparations. I'm asking you to give us the crumbs from the table," said Craig Washington, one of five black Congressmen from the South, on the floor of the House. What crumbs? More and stronger affirmative action as mandated by the Civil Rights...
...another, three rings, hang up, then three more rings. The person called never spoke first. To take our telephones into more soundproof rooms, we extended phone lines with lamp wire. At safer hours we slipped up and down corridors to meet together in different apartments. On the hall floor outside my apartment, I positioned a piece of broken mirror against the wall so that the entire length of the corridor was visible from my partly open door. It was a group rule that everyone checked the mirror before stepping into the hall. When we made visits, knocks on the door...
...takes a "tiered approach," combining three levels of treatment on three different floors. The second floor offers "intensive" care; the third floor gives "congregate" care for people capable of some independence; the fourth floor has apartments with kitchenettes for those who are close to returning to society. The staff is realistic in its expectations: there are virtually no rules about coming and going, and though drugs and alcohol are strongly discouraged, their use is not grounds for eviction. Persuasion rather than coercion is the rule. Unless a client is unmanageable, he will never be thrown back onto the street. Says...
...their best to convince lawmakers that war was the only way to dislodge Saddam from Kuwait if he did not leave by the U.N.-imposed deadline of Jan. 15. But Democrat after Democrat, including many who early on had heartily supported Bush's handling of the crisis, took the floor to rebut the Administration's witnesses and press them to give economic sanctions against Iraq time to produce results. "If we have war," said Senator Sam Nunn, "we are never going to know whether they would have worked...
...coats the steps with ice -- a simple matter of spraying them with water -- and swings paint cans from the banister. Christmas ornaments are strewn about the floor like little land mines, a blowtorch becomes a flamethrower, and a hot iron is transformed into a ballistic missile. Home Alone director Chris Columbus notes that all the dirty tricks can be rigged up by a 10-year- old with simple household supplies, and all have what he calls "kid logic...