Word: backups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hardship to remember-and to learn from. Utilities have increased their storage capacity for natural gas: the South Jersey Gas Co., for example, this summer added 1.2 billion cu. ft., an increase of 30%. New York's Consolidated Edison Co. has arranged to buy synthetic gas as a backup in case pipeline deliveries of natural gas from Texas prove insufficient. Many utilities say they can handle a winter 10% colder than normal with almost no service reductions...
Even if there are service cutoffs, Northern utilities figure the deprivations would be limited to those industrial customers who can readily switch to other fuel. This year there are more companies with backup sources: International Harvester, for example, has successfully drilled its own gas wells in Ohio...
With a jazz trio providing his backup, he begins stitching together the blue-collar bromides, raunchy puns and gritty street lingo that characterize his verse. "It's cold out there/ colder than a ticket taker's smile/ at the Ivar Theater, on a Saturday night," he chants in a voice that sounds like a bad exhaust. The Ivar Theater is a two-bit Hollywood burlesque house where he has spent more than a few evenings...
Plan modifications included increased controls on air pollution, provisions for better backup equipment in case of failure, and an 85 per cent increase in the ground space that the plant will occupy...
Harvard's defense has been hurt badly by injuries in recent weeks. All-Ivy performers Russ Savage and Charlie Kaye have both been playing hurt, and backup John Cosgrove did not even suit up last week...