He was, and is, with the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit pool of thinkers financed by the U.S. Air Force.

The motor pool is a completely centralized and mechanized operation.

Where the pool excels is in its compilation of maintenance and cost-data studies and analyses.

Based on this figure and considering depreciation costs of vehicles, pool personnel have determined that travel in excess of 10,000 miles annually is more economical by state car than by payment of allowances for use of personally-owned vehicles.

One matter of concern to the complete effectiveness of pool operations is the lack of adequate central garage facilities.

It is a good eight years now since each of us acquired a swimming pool -- eight enlightening, vigorous, rigorous, not wholly unrewarding years.

Yet a grassy approach can turn a pool into a floating lawn every time the grass is mowed.

As in choosing a wife, it is only sensible to consider also how appealing a pool is likely to be in bad weather as well as in good.

Probably no location for a pool is perfect on all counts.

But if space and money are no problem and small children are not on hand every day, it is certainly more restful to have your pool and entertainment area removed from the immediate environs of the house.

A gaggle of gabbling mothers, backs to the pool, is no safeguard.

No bottle pool is tolerated -- bottle pool being our lingo for those who come to swim and sink into our bar while protesting that they can only dunk and run.

( To avoid any possible excuse for a dripping parade through your house, it is a good idea to have a telephone extension near the pool as well as a direct outdoor route between the pool, and the parking area.

Unless you want to make your wife a pool widow and to spend a great many of your leisure hours nursing your pool's pristine purity, its care and feeding -- from pH content to filtering and vacuuming -- is best left to a weekly or bi-monthly professional service.

Of course, if your pool is close to the house, your wife can always add it to her housekeeping chores ( you hope ).

A pool is no place for a shut trap.

If your pool is located on or near sloping ground, it may have natural drainage which is certainly more desirable than to be faced with the annual expense and labor of first pumping out the water and then scooping out all the debris.

This is not unlike the order received by the sergeant of an army motor pool: `` Four trucks to Fort Mason gym, 7:30 tonight, for hauling girls to dance.

It is assumed that the iodine released from the iodotyrosines remains in the iodide pool of the thyroid, where it is oxidised and re-incorporated into thyroglobulin.

The pool was emptied for good in 1956 and the facility was displaced in 1962 for the forthcoming 40th anniversary in 1963.

This small pool collected some of the water as it emptied there at the southern end of Hezekiah's tunnel.

At the end of the film, Keaton dives into a swimming pool which has been emptied of water.

While attending Cornell, he fractured his skull diving head-first into a swimming pool at night, only to find the pool had been emptied.

If you employed another person to carry a bucket to the pool while one is being filled and another emptied, then this would be analogous to triple buffering.

The loading bay was turned into a lake around which the developers installed around 200 studio workshops above the ground floor-plus on the ground floor a café, meeting rooms, dance studios, holistic therapy rooms, art display cases in the foyer and a larger gallery space called " The Gallery " at the rear, a record and clothes shop, sculpture ( a huge iron dragon crawls up the exterior of the Medicine Bar ), and fountains within a central pool area which is sometimes emptied to allow for dance music events.

He went through a gate to stand at the edge of the water and gazed at the two thin falls which dropped from large spigots high at the back of the pool.

He was made to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches, with the fruit ever eluding his grasp, and the water always receding before he could take a drink.

Tantalus's punishment for his act, now a proverbial term for temptation without satisfaction ( the source of the English word tantalise ), was to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches.

He has been condemned to stand up to his chin in a pool of water he cannot drink, beneath a vine laden with grapes he cannot eat.

Tantalus's punishment for his actions ( now a proverbial term for " temptation without satisfaction ") was to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches.

Duane and Sonny go on a road trip to Mexico — which happens entirely off-screen — and return to discover that Sam the Lion ( Johnson ), their mentor and father-figure in town, has died of a stroke, leaving a will that bequeaths the town's movie theater to the woman who ran the concession stand, the café to its waitress, Genevieve ( Brennan ), and the pool hall to Sonny.

In its heyday, 11-C camp sported very nice facilities including a large playground, baseball field, tennis courts, a large swimming pool, a cook-house open to the public, beautifully landscaped grounds, a clubhouse with a television, pool and card tables, and an ice-cream stand.

The Sports Complex was designed and founded by resident Steve Johnson and includes one baseball diamond, two softball diamonds, a golf course, a swimming pool, skydiving cliff, snorkeling pools, a geyser, concession stand, and a walking track.

Facilities in the park include: two ball fields ( dugouts, lighted, and electronic score boards ), announcers building, brick concession stand, roofed shelter for grilling out, restrooms, swimming pool, sand volleyball, tennis court / basketball court, sheltered picnic area and playground.

It has various recreational facilities such as sports fields, an outdoor pool, playground, pavilions, concession stand, a senior center, rental halls, equestrian center, camping areas, a fishing pond, ice rinks in the winter, tennis courts, basketball courts, volleyball courts, historical sites, over of hiking / biking / equestrian trails, and more.

Merlin scorned this advice, and instead explained that the hill fort could not stand due to a hidden pool containing two vermes ( dragons ).

Quinn would then stand in front of a pool table, or sit on the edge of it, very often sipping coffee, eating or perusing through a newspaper.

Also a waterpark expansion with new attractions took place in 1996 and 1997 with Hook's Lagoon ( opened in 1996 ) the Crocodile Isle wave pool ( opened in 1997 ) took over Adventure Land's old location by Elk Lake with new changing rooms and a food stand were built, and a bridge was built to connect the already existing Barracuda Bay slides with the then new water park area and a boat tag game was added to the midway.

Steve Martin's L. A. Story ( 1991 ) opens with a hotdog stand dangling under a helicopter passing by a roof-top pool with the sunbathing women waving as it passes, a reference to the opening scene of a statue of Christ being carried into the Vatican in La dolce vita.

Recognizing the potential for developing the land as a resort, Walther constructed the Starved Rock Hotel and a natural pool near the base of Starved Rock, as well as a concession stand and dance hall.

The remaining players stand on the pool deck on the side opposite the Gator.

Another version of Gator that is commonly played in Metro Atlanta calls for the gator to stand on the edge of the diving board with his or her back to the pool.

President George W. Bush and Laura Bush stand in silence after laying a wreath in the north reflecting pool at Ground Zero, in commemoration of the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, on the World Trade Center in New York City.

It houses a basketball court, a commons area, a concessions stand, locker rooms for men and women, and an olympic-sized swimming pool.

It is combined with " dunker " because a mockup cockpit ( SNJ in the 40's and 50's ) is sent down a 45 degree rail from a high stand at the deep end of the training pool, and at the end of the run under water it flips inverted to simulate a water ditching.

He was forced to drop out when the Great Depression of the late 1920s hit and soon began work at various family businesses including a pool hall, a hot dog stand, shooting gallery and a bingo-style operation called the " Reno Game ".