Word: cubical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only thing snow may not be is in finitely variable. One would like to be lieve that no two snowflakes are identical. But, notes Ruth Kirk, there are no physical rules that should prevent nature from duplicating itself, and there are more than half a million snowflakes in each cubic foot of snow. Scientists may not have found two flakes that are exactly alike. But then, they really haven't looked at that many...
...years trying to keep track of the weather. The U.S. and other nations have created an international apparatus that maintains some 100.000 stations to check the weather round the clock in every sector of the globe and, with satellites, in a good deal of the more than 4 billion cubic miles of the atmosphere...
...effect that the administration would be willing to compromise still further by giving increased tax credits to industries that convert to coal, returning a larger portion of revenues from the proposed energy tax to the oil industry, and allowing regulated natural gas prices to rise to $2.00 per thousand cubic feet instead of the proposed $1.75 ceiling...
...sufficiently to encourage producers. Drilling has grown increasingly costly because most new gas can now be found only in tighter formations at depths of 15,000 ft. to 20,000 ft. The deregulators argued that even if the price of new gas rose as high as $3.25 per thousand cubic feet (m.c.f.)-compared with the present regulated price of $1.47 per m.c.f. when piped across state lines-only some $4 billion would be tacked to the national gas bill by 1980. The President's forces, on the other hand, maintained that an adequate amount of gas could be produced...
...very well might be worth it. Even if the mile-long iceberg lost as much as 20% of its mass en route, it could be melted down and its water made available at a cost of 500 to 600 a cubic meter (about 35 cu. ft.), well under the 80? it now costs to desalinate a cubic meter of water...