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...that it's not a profit-seeking utility seeking the license, but a consortium of hospitals, research centers and a medical school which serve 585,000 patients a year and consistently come up with awesome medical breakthroughs. Moreover, if MATEP is allowed to start up its six 9000-horsepower diesel engines, it can begin offering the seven hospitals and other clients electricity 30 to 35 percent more cheaply than Boston Edison...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: The MATEP Shuffle | 11/17/1984 | See Source »

...with MATEP, Harvard has spent seven years fighting in the courts, testing and retesting the diesel engines, and installing an elaborate air monitoring system--all of which have driven the plant's price tag up 500 percent. Every day the diesels remain idle, the hospitals lose money because the plant is not realizing the energy savings that would make it worthwhile...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: The MATEP Shuffle | 11/17/1984 | See Source »

...truck cab skidded and broad-sided a taxi at yesterday afternoon on North Harvard St. outside the Business School Approximately 30 gallons of diesel fuel were spilled onto Anderson Road, which leads into the Business School, but on one was injured...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Truck-Taxi Crash Causes Fuel Spill | 10/30/1984 | See Source »

...announced that the Administration had decided to grant Israel access to the advanced U.S. technology needed for the Lavi fighter jet, which is expected to become the workhorse of the Israeli air force in the 1990s. He said the U.S. would also consider meeting Israeli requests to buy three diesel submarines and to sell Israeli-made 120-mm mortars and ammunition to the U.S. Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: A $500 Million Misunderstanding | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

...navy, too, hardly presents a threat to any of Peking's neighbors. Though it has an impressive force of 100 diesel-powered submarines and at least two Han-class nuclear-powered attack subs, China does not have a navy capable of projecting power worldwide. The conventional subs cannot venture far beyond coastal waters and are highly vulnerable to sonar detection. Nonetheless, China's navy has been receiving the lion's share of modernization funds. Its current manpower of 360,000 is more than double its 1970 strength, and the number of Chinese combat vessels has tripled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Snappy Birthday, Comrades | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

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