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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...

Author: By Mark Mead, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Tips Top-Ranked Minutemen; Bergman's 22 Saves Enliven Defense | 4/26/1984 | See Source »

...ordinary coal-fired facility. "It's like building a giant Swiss watch," says David Freeman, a director of the Tennessee Valley Authority, which operates two atomic plants. Many nuclear construction crews tried to build these Swiss watches with little more than the skills needed to hammer together a coal burner. Delays and repairs have led to catastrophic cost overruns, which have plagued many plants completed in recent years as well as some of those currently under construction. Florida's new St. Lucie 2 facility, which was built and brought on line in six years for $1.4 billion, about four times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pulling the Nuclear Plug | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Roy Mccoy, | Title: Esperanto at Harvard? | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

...issue on the front burner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Act of Dubious Diplomacy: Jesse Jackson Goes to Syria | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

Beathard, the livestock judge of the Washington Redskins, has been consulted. "Fryar is what we call a burner, unbelievable speed," he says. In fact, the Redskins did not credit the clocking provided by the school. "He runs a 4.28 forty [yards]," says Beathard with a chuckle. "That's our time." Plus he enjoys collisions. "Not to take anything away from Rozier," Beathard says, "but Fryar should be considered more of a prize in the National Football League, a game breaker. Not quite a burner, Rozier is an excellent back who breaks tackles and does a lot of good things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Nebraska, Plainly | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

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