The SAT people are making it very difficult to get an exemption to go with a keyboard.

In 1981 ... I sat in the House chamber when another new president talked to the American people about stimulating the economy,

This is nothing new. Since the Greeks, people sat on a hillside with a basket to eat and watch Euripides, Aeschylus and Sophocles.

Some people sat on their roof for up to seven days with intense heat, snakes and mosquitoes.

Otherwise people sat on the floor.

The (search) committee sat down and went through all the applications and looked for people with prior chamber or not-for-profit experience.