Word: burner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THIS EMPHASIS on huge-and, increasingly, unreasonably expensive--power plants, whether nuclear or coal-fired, relegates other sources of power, such as conservation and the use of renewable resources, to the back burner. Under the DOE plan, conservation measures get last priority. Meanwhile, however, an experiment going on now at Hook River, Oregon, where an entire town was refitted with the latest in energy efficient insulation and appliances, seems to be proving that conservation can indeed quickly pay for itself and eliminate the need for many additional power plants...
...piece of news is not the top story on the evening news, it must not be terribly important. A poll of "informed" Americans would probably find last month's most important story involved the Libyan in London. The networks and major papers kept the story on the front burner of political discussion for nearly a week. But is the Libyan incident as relevant to the average American as the furious war in the Mideast, which may affect the economic, political and military security of the nation? Apparently the movers and shakers of the press thought so. While the commentators were...
Junior Paul Garavente's strike and a 40 foot underhanded worm burner by junior Rob Hawley (three goals, two assists) put the Crimson three goals up with six minutes remaining in the game...
...Kennedy School," Thomas says. However, according to Broadnax, as the K-School grows, "It becomes more and more likely that it will take on a more cosmopolitan environment as we work towards achieving an optimum mix of foreign students and move those issues confronting developing countries to the front burner...
...first consider some of the criticisms and reservations. First among these we may take the view of Esperanto as a so-called "back-burner" issue, which might be of some interest, but upon which people would generally not be moved to action. But then, what isn't a back-burner issue, at least in general practice? That is, even among the clearly critical issues such as stemming of the population explosion or conservation of the environment, who among us really does anything about them on a day-to-day basis, excepting those occasions when an issue is "topical" enough...