Word: boulder
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Here's more: Next Monday night against Boston University, the Crimson will win the Beanpot. Coach Bill Cleary will crush the heavy boulder that has rested on his back for the last eight years, and life will be good again...
...home-automation systems at a fraction of the previous cost. Several manufacturers, including Texas Instruments, CyberLynx and AISI, have announced plans to shrink the CEBus electronics into a chip that can be embedded at the factory into everything from air conditioners to toaster ovens. Says Les Larsen, president of Boulder- based CyberLynx: "This will allow homeowners to control their environment to a degree not possible before...
...first goal of that cooperative effort should be to gather the information needed to fashion effective policies. "We've got to get the earth in intensive care, to start to monitor the vital signs of the planet," said John Eddy of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in Boulder. This could be done by launching an International Earthwatch Program, possibly under the aegis of the United Nations, to coordinate multinational research projects and centralize essential data on the state of the world. Such an umbrella program could pool the results of hundreds of existing research efforts. A prime candidate...
...sign of the Soviets' willingness to join international environmental efforts was their presence at the TIME conference in Boulder. Fyodor Morgun, the recently appointed head of Goskompriroda, made his first trip to the U.S. (and only his second journey outside the Soviet Union) to attend the meeting. And he was startlingly frank about the situation in his country. "We have started too late," Morgun told the group. "Our air is not up to the proper mark, our soil is polluted, and our forests are affected. Drastic measures were taken in the West 15 to 20 years ago to improve...
...conflict between his desire for a cleaner environment and his hopes of rapidly raising the living standards and / consumption levels of his people. Without careful pollution control, boosting production will befoul the environment even more. And money that goes into antipollution equipment cannot be used for industrial expansion. In Boulder, Morgun emphasized that the Kremlin wanted to get around this dilemma by redirecting money from military spending into the civilian economy. That, he said, depended on continued progress in arms-control talks with...