Word: cools
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some important safety systems were not working at the time of the accident. Refrigeration units designed to keep the highly reactive MIC cool so that it could not vaporize had been shut down before the accident. Other equipment, including devices designed to vent and burn off excess gases, was so inadequate, investigators hinted, that it would have been ineffective even if it had been operating at the time of the accident...
...Brown, 47, Houston. Brown was public safety commissioner of Atlanta during the black child murders that ended in 1981, and his name became known across the U.S. In Houston he is now a local superstar. Initially, despite a doctorate in criminology from Berkeley, Brown got a cool reception when Mayor Kathy Whitmire named him chief in 1982. But he has engineered a remarkable turnaround in a department that for years had a national reputation as brutal and racist. Brown "just took charge and started getting things done," says Larry Troutt, an aide to Whitmire's chief challenger in the past...
Makarov was a surly, pompous, sarcastic contrast to Gromyko's cool but generally courteous personality. Gromyko kept him as the perfect watchdog. He scared off intruders. He sheltered his master from unnecessary contacts with lesser humans. Gromyko is an efficient machine, constructed to perform and to endure, and almost completely devoid of human warmth. He can joke and he can rage, but underlying any such expression is a cold discipline that makes him formidable as a superior or as an adversary...
...Cool courts or no, the Crimson overpowered Princeton, which has lost only handful of meets in the last decade...
Nancy Love (Genevieve Bujold) conducts a radio call-in show, from which issues a stream of psychobabble to cool her listeners' sundry sexual fevers. She is suffering near-terminal repression, which lifts after a oneafternoon stand with Mickey...