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...costs about $125,000. If a driller hits, he still can be disappointed by the mixture of steam and briny water that hisses to the surface. Sometimes it is too cool to use efficiently; often it is laden with minerals and impurities that "crud up" turbine blades and even clog the bored hole itself. The steam can, in fact, be cleaned, but unfortunately the process is expensive. Its heat can be transferred to a non-corrosive gas and fed to the turbine, but that is inefficient...
Continually working hard merely to get the ball down the court fatigues many poorly conditioned teams. Once the ball is across midcourt, U.C.L.A. falls into man-to-man defense, sagging off players to converge on the man with the ball. With Walton to clog up the middle and intimidate anyone considering a layup, this defense forces play to the outside, where most college shooters are least effective...
After a soft summer and a brilliant fall, this promises to be Europe's cruelest winter of discontent. Like America, Europe has celebrated more than a quarter-century of spiraling conspicuous consumption, and it is not mentally prepared to do without. Cars clog the cities. Lights burn through the night. Parents plan their precious ski holidays around the Christmas vacation, assuming that they can all go on living as they are. But that will not happen. The fourth Arab-Israeli war and its consequences have brought Western Europe to the point of no return...
...somehow it is always the right who are interviewed for American newspapers and wire services. Hundreds of thousands of workers and peasants regularly clog the streets in Chile's capital, Santiago, to demonstrate their support for their Allende government, but their voices are never heard in the United States. Yet let a handful of middle class women bang some cooking pots and wail about prices, and cries of anguish about the subversion of Chilean liberties emanate from sensible American observers...
Although we must condemn Judge Garrity for failing to avert this aberration of justice. We hold in contempt those government agents who hold in contempt those government agents who spent the past 16 months in relentless drive to clog the free flow of information...