Word: controls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resulted from deliberate precautionary measures to ensure that two power transmission problems did not snowball into an uncontrolled black-out, Paul Harprey, a spokesman for the Rhode Island, Eastern Massachusetts, Vermont Energy Control (REMVAC), said yesterday...
...where else can an actor with no technical resources--a Jack Nicholson (good as he is), a Clint Eastwood, a Burt Reynolds--come off so well? Langella has broad features that express grand emotions, a voice as resonant and mellifluous as any in the American theater, and consummate physical control. In one scene in the stage Dracula, he brought off a piece of vocal and physical ballet: dodging and twisting around outstretched crucifixes, rasping out curses in defiance of his mortal captors, raging and hissing as he buckles into his cape and subsequently dissolves into a puff of smoke...
Somoza resigns, and a rebel regime takes control...
...founded Windsurfing International Inc. Today the firm employs 80 at its Marina Del Rey factory and will turn out 12,000 boards this year. There are a wider, more stable version for kids and beginners ($595), the standard model ($745) and the "Rocket," with foot straps for better control at high speeds ($795). Sailrider Inc. of South Salem, N.Y., this year will produce 3,000 units of a similar craft ($679) made of cy-clolac, a high-impact plastic, which along with its rig weighs 60 Ibs. Windsurfing International has licensed a Dutch textile firm to make and market...
...major problem is not financial but environmental. Extracting oil from shale is thought to be the greatest pollution threat. Thus, the toughest environmental battles will probably rage in Colorado and other shale-rich Western states, which have generally strict pollution-control laws. There will also be local resistance to coal gasification and liquefaction plants because they pollute the air with fumes from burning and lead to a noisy, dust-spewing increase in rail traffic to bring in the coal. On the other side, labor unions and various local groups will be eager to attract synfuel plants-particularly in Appalachia-because...