Word: billiards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...payments, MEP gave participants regular unemployment checks for 24 weeks. It also offered 10 weeks of small-business instruction and financing at MEP's partner bank, Shawmut. So far, Shawmut has provided $165,000 in loans for such ventures as a catering service, a photography studio and a billiard hall. James O'Neill, who lost his $55,000-a- year job as a plant manager in August 1990, launched a worker's compensation consulting firm based in Westfield. "There was a period of doubt," he recalls. "Money was only coming in in dribs and drabs." Now O'Neill...
...fuel capable of withstanding very high temperatures -- up to 3,300 degrees F (1,800 degrees C) -- into reactor vessels so small that they cannot hold enough fuel to produce such temperatures. The fuel consists of tiny grains of enriched uranium that are coated in ceramic and embedded in billiard ball-size "pebbles" of graphite. The reactor needs no safety cooling system; helium gas flowing through the core simply carries away heat to power a turbine. Even if all the gas escaped, the core could not melt down. Lawrence Lidsky, an M.I.T. professor of nuclear engineering, calls such reactors "inherently...
...Adams House Billiard Room...
According to students in the area, both a cue stick and some billiard balls were used as weapons in the altercation...