Word: cooler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the response to the current B.D.U., introduced in 1981, was "universally unfavorable." That was putting it mildly. During last October's Grenada invasion, Marines temporarily equipped with the B.D.U. instead of the appropriate tropical gear complained that the fabric was heavy, sweaty and unkempt. Even soldiers in cooler climes agreed. Once wet, the uniform takes an excessive time to dry. The sleeves are too narrow to roll up easily, the collar too wide and the pants pockets hard to reach. Seams unravel, buttons fall off. The trousers come with a reinforced crotch that strengthens the garment but constricts...
...heat from a 75-watt light bulb.) This hot air is propelled through a labyrinth of ducts by ventilating fans. Some is mixed with cool air from outside and pumped back into the center of the building to provide fresh air; some is circulated past pipes carrying cooler water from the basement. During this encounter, the water from the basement is initially heated by 10°. Its temperature is raised further by large refrigerator-type compressors called heat pumps, which can add or remove large quantities of heat...
...winter the pumps hike the water's temperature to an optimal 105°. Some of this freshly warmed water is immediately sent off to the building's naturally cooler, outside offices, where it passes through heating coils that warm the air. The heated water can be stored in the tanks for re-circulation through the building at night or on weekends, when the building's population is low and very little machinery is operating. In summer the system works in reverse, with the heat pumps acting as air " conditioners. Rather than being stored in the basement...
...even grislier practices. To handle its backlog of bodies, former employees claim, the mortuary crammed corpses five at a time into gas ovens built for one. The jumbled ashes were allegedly dumped into 30-gal. trash cans. Then, says Bob Kilburn, a funeral refrigeration-supply manufacturer who installed a cooler at Harbor Lawn three years ago, "they'd scoop up ashes with a pail and fill ten cardboard boxes, type up ten labels and proceed to make ten people." In other words, the remains of Aunt Felicia might be liberally sprinkled with the ashes of someone else...
...indicates it might also strike down the Resolution. Thus the balance in our government concerning war powers is tilted against the Congress at present. As a result, they should take prompt action on their own initiative to revise the Resolution, and possibly even completely restructure and change it, using cooler heads than in 1973. Paul W. Green