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...energy program (TIME, May 2) will be shipped by rail. But if other states or Congress pass laws like the one signed by Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe Jr. last week, an increasing amount will be transported by slurry pipelines. Working much like toilets, the pipelines are supposed to "flush" a slurry mixture of water and pulverized coal from mine to market. When the blend gets to its destination, usually an electric utility plant, the coal is separated from the water by filter or centrifuge and used to heat boilers. The water is used to cool the plant...
...lights. Now that the President is more concerned with the global village, the real Clinton has stood up. Early last week the genuine town meeting was scheduled to discuss, among other items, Clinton's $6.5 million budget. The attendance: 268. Police beat the streets in an effort to flush out enough folks to reach the total of 300 needed for a quorum. No luck...
Like most people, Manhattan attorney Michael Carter looked long and hard before buying a home. Last month his winter-long search finally paid off and Carter signed for a new five-bedroom contemporary house in fashionable Fairfield County, Conn. He was not alone. With personal income rising, and lenders flush with mortgage money, Americans all across the country are streaming back into the housing market, accelerating a two-year recovery that now shows signs of ripening into an authentic boom...
...began gobbling up long putts in earnest on the back side, holding out for birdies on 12, 14, 16, and 17. On the 389-yard 12th, he needed only a sand wedge into the green after catching his drive flush. On the par-three 16th, Fitzgibbons sent his tee shot skittering just past the flagstick on the pocket handkerchief of a green and proceeded to roll in the comeback putt...
Fitzgibbons also birdied the par five 14th with a salvo of four flawless shots. He cleared the water hazard that guards the 14th green on his second shot, a 4-iron he caught flush, but the ball kicked off the slope of the green and he needed a chip and a putt for his birdie...