Word: exhaustiveness
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...nearly dawn. The two ghostly figures stood and started for their daytime retreats: Jefferson to his monument on the edge of the city, skirted by freeways, engulfed in noise and automobile exhaust, the 18th century man of enlightenment and his lifelong motto -"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God"-face to face with the 20th century; and Hamilton to his pedestal in front of the Treasury building, facing a lovely green park just across a narrow, shady street from the White House...
...judging from the scores of groupie locals that flood it on weekends, as an ask-for-it-we've-got-it gold mine. But its prices are fit for a gold rush town, booming sky high. There are small stores and boutiques galore--even year long residents don't exhaust them for interest. Central War Surplus (433 Mass Ave.) is the place to find durable blue jeans, bells, and work shirts, the sort of garb that has become the staple badge of student identity, collective and anonymous, a product of need rather than conspicuous consumption. Jeans and shirts decorated...
...would be rationed in some areas. Parking in major cities would be severely curtailed. New exhaust-control devices, although technically far from perfect, would be required on old as well as new cars. Most startlingly, the EPA proposals suggested that by 1977, limits on gasoline sales could force most automobiles off the streets of Los Angeles, a city almost totally dependent upon the internal combustion engine. The thrust of the proposed new controls would be to make it increasingly difficult for Americans to add their cars' pollution to the gases that already hover over the nation's major...
...retooling of production lines, allows the stratified-charge engine to run on mixtures of fuel that are considerably more "lean" (a high ratio of air to gasoline) than standard engines now burn. The result is more complete combustion in the engine's cylinders and the reduction of polluting exhaust gases escaping from the tail pipe...
...richer mix that may have seeped into the main chamber. 3) The spark plug fires the rich mix. 4) The rich, burning mix ignites the adjoining lean mix, and the expanding gases push the piston down. 5) Moving up again, the piston forces the spent gases through the open exhaust valve...