Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Adelman said temperatures reached as high as 4000 degrees Centigrade (7232 degrees Fahrenheit) at the graphite-cooled reactor. He said the graphite is burning and will continue to burn "for a good number of days...
...South Africa's black townships during the past year and a half. Some 1,450 people have been killed in clashes with police and by fire bombings and brutal "necklacings," in which young radicals place gasoline-filled tires around the necks of suspected traitors to the antiapartheid cause and burn them alive. But the anger is deeply rooted, and recently a new strain of violence has begun to emerge in the black communities. Groups of conservative blacks, angered by radical tactics, are starting to strike out at other blacks. No one knows exactly how many of the locally organized vigilante...
...spring weather. But now, thanks to the "open university," the irate 'shmen are fighting back. If they can't have their frisbees on the smelly fertilizer, then divestment activists certainly can't have an ivory tower--taking up the space of thousands of frisbees but not helping anyone burn off calories...
Utilities, businesses, homeowners and others who still burn natural gas are winning lower costs as their fuel suppliers try to compete with oil. Consolidated Natural Gas of Pittsburgh says that its 1.5 million customers are already enjoying savings of up to 20%. If the price of petroleum keeps plunging, however, gas companies will be hard pressed to compete with fuel-oil dealers...
Even more so than the bomb, the committee found "unconscionable" the use of the fire as a "tactical weapon." Yet, what is so demonic, so "unconscionable" about the tactics of letting the fire burn to force the people out of the building, is that it's so rational. So pathologically rational. So...unconscious. The strategic rationality of standing around on the scene, walkie-talkie in hand, and issuing orders to let the fire burn runs right over into unreason, into the unconscious in "unconscionable...