The lifts are operated by means of a hydraulic ram with wire ropes, which derives its pressure from a small pump driven by an electric motor.

At the intersection with two roads going left, take the soft left.

[…] is it specks on my glasses instead of lines of kids that I see in front of the movie houses hereabouts showing Brewster McCloud, the asinine tale of an astrophilic adolescent holing up in Houston's Astrodome; […]

The short average length of stay would indicate to what extent the almshouse is used as a temporary shelter, and that the permanent inmates form a minority in the almshouse population. The periods of continuous inmacy are somewhat longer for females.