Word: diesel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neither team dominated play in the first half. Harvard's top scorer Sue St. Louis mounted several drives into the Yale zone. The diesel-powered St. Louis amassed 19 goals and five assists on the season, but couldn't find daylight amidst the maze of eager Elis...
...herbicide sprayer with a receiver that catches any spray that does not hit a plant and recycles it into the pump, economizing on spray and preventing pollution of the ground. Another innovation is an irrigation system that covers even more ground than a center-pivot machine; it is a diesel-powered contraption that pushes a boom a half mile long and irrigates 320 acres at a crack...
...naval engagement began not far from Scapa Flow, traditional wartime port of the British navy. Whenever the Norwegians headed for land in their squat, diesel-powered skiff, crewmen from the Rainbow Warrior in inflatable boats powered by 50-h.p. outboards began darting across their path. Orcadian volunteers pitched tents on the breeding-ground islands, ready to frighten the seals into the water at the approach of the hunters...
...Decision backed a January ruling by the state Department of Environmental Quality (DEQE) that the power plant's planned diesel engines--designed to produce electricity--would also produce too much nitrogen oxide, an air pollutant...
...preliminary court ruling in July had permitted the University to continue with construction of the diesel portion of the plant, pending further court review of the DEQE ruling. Young's final decision, which followed a series of hearings over the past two weeks, reversed the preliminary ruling...