Word: bucket
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...potential in a rural community, the Riverhead plant and other small ones offer just a drop in the bucket to thirsty cities such as New York, which daily consumes 1.25 billion gal. The governments of the U.S. and Israel are now jointly studying the possibility of building nuclear desalinization plants with daily outputs of 100 million gal. For the Los Angeles region, Bechtel Corp. has recently completed the first stage of a study calling for a two-reactor nuclear plant that theoretically, by 1972, could turn out 150 million gal. per day, at a cost...
...seems that New England is 19 or 20 inches below the normal annual amount of rainfall; so an inch is "really just a drop in the bucket," the spokesman explained...
...world's biggest participant sport. Nearly everyone who drives a car thinks, at one time or another, about beating the "hot shoe" in the next lane. Auto companies do their best to enhance the illusion: naming cars "Le Mans," "Monza," "G.T.O.," "Grand Prix"; equipping them with bucket seats, tachometers, four-speed transmissions, and speedometers thoughtfully calibrated up to 160 m.p.h.-85 m.p.h. above the highest legal speed limit...
...field. Copying the early success of Ford's Thunderbird ($4,486 for a two-door hardtop), Detroit has made such entries as the Buick Riviera ($4,408), the Oldsmobile Starfire ($4,148) and Chrysler's 300-L ($4,168). The new sports cars combine racy lines, bucket seats and consoles, and plush, gadget-filled interiors, can cost more than the least expensive Cadillac, when accessories are added. Cadillac goes higher than any other car, however: its Seventy-Five limousine costs $9,960, and a raft of accessories can drive the price of a Cadillac as high...
...Coke drinkers in chinos and stretch pants. Starting from Paris' famed Whisky a Go-Go, discotheques by more or less the same name have opened in Milwaukee, Chicago, Washington, San Francisco, Atlanta and Los Angeles. In addition, there is the A-Go-Go in Aspen, Colo., the Bucket A-Go-Go in Park City, Utah, the Frisky A-Go-Go in San Antonio, the Champagne A-Go-Go in Madison, Wis., and the Bin-Note A-Go-Go in Whitesboro, N.Y. And everywhere the couples go-going on the dance floor are like, well, old. Moans one teenager: "Nothing...