Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...younger boy made for a seat but his older friend pulled him away by the collar of his yellow Lacoste and gestured for the girl to sit; she deferred to an elderly man with a cane. The older boy smiled encouragingly and leaned back against the side of the car, but the girl was too involved with her watch to notice...
...long as a coolant (water in most reactors) keeps flowing around the reactor core, it carries heat away, and the temperature stays under control. If the coolant is lost, the core begins to overheat, like a car with a broken radiator. The chain reaction promptly ceases because rising temperatures cause the fuel to expand, which increases the distances between individual atoms and makes it less likely that the neutrons emitted by one will hit the nucleus of another. But the spontaneous radioactive decay of nuclei goes on. The uncooled reactor core could eventually get hot enough to melt through...
Residents of Miamisburg, Ohio, found last week that they couldn't go home again after all. Early in the week 15,000 of them were evacuated when 15 cars of a 44-car transport train derailed, causing a tanker filled with phosphorus to explode and spew a plume of noxious white smoke over the small city (pop. 18,000) ten miles southwest of Dayton. Local hospitals treated some 300 people for respiratory problems and eye irritations...
...could drive from here to California on a Dickens," claims Jeanne Sullivan, a librarian in Oak Park, Ill. The point is well taken; the library's copy of David Copperfield is 22 cassettes long. Says Birmingham Photographer Mike Clemmer: "I haven't made any long car trips, but when I do, I'll buy a book on tape. No more lousy radio music or CB chatter for me." Lynn Kirk, a real estate investor from Ojai, Calif., admits, "I am definitely addicted to books on tape. I cannot get into my car without them. There are no commercials...
...asking the consumer for personal information, preferences and tastes; last year 200,000 responses were returned. They form the first profile of an audio market that according to computer projections, will yield industry-wide sales of more than $250 million in 1986. After all, analysts point out, most new-car manufacturers offer the option of a tape deck, and Walkman-style cassette players have become as much a part of the urban landscape as Reeboks and Perrier. Each tape deck and set of earphones represents a potential customer, a statistic that is not lost on Frank Vertuca, associate director...