With the exception of a brief period four years ago, Republicans have controlled the New York's State Senate for decades, blocking an Empire State Building-high pile of progressive bills passed by the State Assembly.
Universities everywhere are building high-tech "incubators".
Piles of grass clippings left in high piles become quite odorous.
It was not so much a street but a remnant of one, lined with barren lots, abandoned buildings and eight-foot-high piles of bulldozed bricks.
There were military vehicles, men with guns, construction trucks, cops, a barbed wire fence and several hundred tons of building piled high in the midnight sky.
High friction is needed for the satisfactory functioning of nuts and bolts, paper clips, and tongs, as well as in the familiar processes of walking, gripping objects manually, and building piles of sand or of apples.
Building a rubbish pile is, it turns out, surprisingly high-tech.
As you're building up your pile, set any dirty clothes aside in a hamper or in a separate pile.
Building walls or piling up riprap protects infrastructure.
When the 7 World Trade Center tower collapsed that day, across Barclay Street, it tore a gash in Fiterman Hall, set fires inside the building and piled rubble high against its facade.
The villagers pulled an array of belongings from the 10-foot-high pile of cinder blocks, twisted concrete pillars and steel reinforcing words, and laid them out on the bare earth beside the obliterated building.
