Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gloomily warned that the shutdowns would have a "profound importance for our power supply." For one thing, the utilities that own the B & W reactors would be forced to buy electricity elsewhere for their customers. That would be costly. William Lee, chief executive of North Carolina's Duke Power Co., estimated that the cost of such a shutdown would run more than $100 million a month. But, under the compromise, these forecasts seemed somewhat alarmist...
...refueling. So too are Metropolitan Edison's two reactors at Three Mile Island: one because of the March 28 accident, its twin for refueling and maintenance. Thus the NRC's order means an additional loss of only four nuclear plants-California's Rancho Seco and Duke Power's three Oconee reactors in South Carolina-out of 72 nuclear plants licensed to operate across the U.S., including five on the East Coast temporarily shut for earthquake safety studies. All together, nuclear reactors produce about 14% of the nation's electricity...
...jazz fan; for once it is not only possible but necessary to exercise some selectivity. Boston Jazz Week (April 27-May 6) begins tomorrow, and its sponsor, the Jazz Coalition, has coordinated a rich and varied program of events to help fulfill this year's theme of "Celebrating the Duke" (they don't mean John Wayne). Boston Jazz Week lacks the financial and promotional resources of the Boston Globe Jazz Festival, but it also lacks the crass commercialism that characterized that event; the committment is to real jazz, music that deserves to be heard, not to artistically bereft beg-money...
...fashionable restaurants such as Manhattan's "21" Club and Washington's Duke Zeibert's, an inordinate number of customers appear to be feasting-or fasting, as the case may be-on the same simply prepared dish. Fish if it happens to be Monday night, beef on Tuesday, lamb if Wednesday. Peculiar? Not to these diet devotees. They are merely following the latest popular weight-loss regimen: the Scarsdale Diet...
...begin Saturday night at the Berklee Performance Center with nationally acclaimed tap dancer Leon Collins and the spirited Danny Sloan Dance Company. Sloan features a repertory of jazz, ethnic, modern and ballet, while Collins, who teaches at the Harvard Dance Center, has toured nationally with the Jimmy Lunceford Band, Duke Ellington and Count Basie. Saturday night's bill will also include the Jassin' Singers and the Joel Press Jazz Quartet, both of which are local groups who regularly perform new works. The festival will receive a strong kickoff Friday night when world-famous ballet dancer Edward Villella hosts the opening...