Word: emits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Force base at North Truro--where local hangliders fly into airspace around the base--operated on a peak power output of ten megawatts of microwave radiation. The Air Force itself drew an official danger zone within an 800-ft. radius of the three radomes--units which emit microwave radiation for radar beams...
...installation of a dozen giant windmills to generate electricity in windy mountain passes; up to $3 million for the use of agricultural wastes-wood chips, walnut shells and maybe rice hulls-to heat and cool the state capitol and other government buildings. The wastes are baked until they emit organic gas, which is then collected and burned as fuel...
First identified in the 1960s, the enigmatic, starlike objects called quasars are as baffling today as they were more than a decade ago when Astronomer Jesse Greenstein scribbled his poetic plaint on a Caltech blackboard. What sets quasars apart from most other celestial objects is that the light they emit is shifted drastically toward the red, or low-frequency, end of the spectrum. Just as a train whistle's lowered pitch indicates that it is moving away from the listener, so the quasars' light suggests that they are receding from the earth at tremendous speeds-some approaching...
...Indians before Americans," is the dogmatic statement issued by many Passamaquoddies, and it is the feeling countless more emit. "We are a nation," Moore states...
...terminal for Alaskan oil would add to the already bad air and water pollution problem in the Los Angeles basin. Although no refining will take place in the area, critics of the Long Beach plan say that just shipping the oil through there will add to pollution: tankers continually emit fumes, sometimes spill oil, and will inevitably have accidents...