Word: diesel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have also considered alternate power plants, including fuel injection, stratified charge, gas turbines, the diesel. Wenkel engine, free piston, electric, battery, steam car, and so on. And in most of those instances we built...
...spray the parched Pinal Mountains with potent herbicides-mainly one called Silvex, plus small quantities of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T. Purpose of the spraying operation: to preserve precious water for people by killing water-consuming vegetation. Unfortunately, instead of being mixed with diesel oil, the defoliants were mistakenly applied with water, which quickly evaporates in the arid area. As a result, they were especially toxic. Worse, the helicopter strayed over the copper-mining town of Globe (pop. 6,000), the far outskirts of which were soon covered with a fine white mist...
...everything from pesticides to offshore oil wells. Well versed by now in the techniques of protest, they are even turning to the courts for help. A group of Washington law students recently brought legal action to force the capital's transit authority to muzzle the fumes from its diesel buses...
...criticized by Pravda last week-have been reluctant to surrender their authority. The ministries, in fact, have often "violated the rights granted to enterprises," according to Aleksandr Bachurin, deputy chairman of the U.S.S.R. State Planning Committee. In the first blush of reform during 1966, the "Engine of the Revolution" diesel factory in Gorky reduced the number of its products from 18 to the four that its managers thought could be produced most efficiently. In 1968, on orders from the Ministry of Heavy, Power and Transport Machine Building, it increased the number of products...