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...much as 90% of the energy that is locked in a gallon of heating oil, vs. the 70% recovered by a conventional furnace. But it makes no sense to install highly efficient equipment in the basement if all the additional heat generated escapes through leaky baseboards, wall sockets, attics, exhaust fans and chimneys, where up to 85% of a home's heat loss occurs...
...catch the sun's rays, and becomes gradually opaque on the northern exposure. The principal entry points are two half-buried tubes that would serve as the major cross streets. Travel inside the dome would be by electric cars or monorail-to avoid lethal accumulations of automobile exhaust. Still, Tigan admits the project's "human dimensions" must be explored. One member of the city council, which last month approved a request for $55,000 in federal money to make the feasibility study, wondered how residents would feel about no longer being able to do cross-country skiing from...
...could exhaust superlatives on individual numbers. When Sylvia ("Kuum-ba") Williams, a lady of formidable amplitude, undulates into Kitchen Man and The Right Key but the Wrong Keyhole, sex becomes an active verb. Thais Clark is an infectious comedian who can subtly saturate a blues like Muddy Water with haunting plaintiveness. By birth, Topsy Chapman was a 16th child. Here she's a No. 1 joymaker. Snake-hipped Vernel Bagneris keeps the company jumping at a blistering pace...
...total annual cost of the programs that the experts have cited tops $30 billion, and even these would not exhaust the Pentagon's shopping list. Yet this sum already exceeds what a 5% military budget boost would yield. Chairman
That was putting it mildly. "Thieu objected not to specific terms but to the fact of an agreement," Kissinger writes. He did not come right out and say so. "Instead, he fought in the Vietnamese manner: indirectly, elliptically, by methods designed to exhaust rather than to clarify, constantly needling but never addressing the real issue." On the third day of meetings, the Vietnamese presented Kissinger with 23 changes, some major, in the draft peace treaty; later that figure would triple, to 69. Finally the talks broke down completely as Thieu, between tears of rage, accused the Americans of having "connived...