Now, state and hospital officials say, virtually any incident out of the ordinary is reported to the state, from an unnecessary patient death to a broken boiler.

They don't want to deal with the annoyances of a broken boiler.

How do you inform parents that the overnight heavy snow storm or a broken boiler is going to unexpectedly close the school for the day?

The broken boiler led St. Ann's and diocesan officials to check their troubled finances.

The enemy can simply be a broken boiler, but too often it can be a cheap, irresponsible or absent landlord.

If one school has a broken boiler, it takes a huge chunk of our reserves.

The companies, now defunct, also pretended to deliver oil to buildings with broken boilers and then sold the excess fuel to other companies, investigators said.

On "Nothing Sacred" the parish staff is shown counting the collection plate and worrying about the broken boiler.

It isn't my first broken boiler, but it's the first one I'm solely responsible for.

Their urgent-sounding message on my answering machine at home in New York had me imagining a broken boiler or flooded basement.