Word: dieselization
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...University planners have still been unable to secure state approval for installing the diesel engines which will produce the bulk of that electricity. Community groups in the Misison Hill and Brookline area have argued that the plant's diesels will spew dangerous nitrous oxides and carcinogens into their backyards. A series of state agency recommendations and rulings handed down this year have done nothing but further delay a project that is already several years late...
State officials last week rejected a plan to install diesel engines at the Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP), saying they have not seen evidence of sufficient safeguards for public health...
...residents object to the nitrous oxides and carcinogenic particles they say MATEP's diesel engines would emit if they are installed. The engines are necessary to make the $175 million plant, which would provide energy to 13 medical area institutions, cost-and energy-efficient...
Fahrner broke his back in a ski-lift accident a month before the Olympics, but last week, wearing a brace, he was out on the course, prowling the mountain in a Sno-Cat, shouting into a walkie-talkie over the roar of the diesel engine...
Each student also spends at least one 14-hour stretch chained to Westward's diesel stove as "galley slave," cooking for 34 people. Meals are justly referred to as "feeding frenzies." Sample fare: pizza, noodles and beef, fresh-caught dolphin fish. For the most part, the young mariners are too tired for ship board romance, which is discouraged anyway in SEA literature as "tiresome and destructive" in such close quarters. A student-lettered sign high above deck announces: NO FRIGGING IN THE RIGGING...