Word: foams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...report to the owners suggesting improvements in thermostat type and location, windows, weather stripping and insulation, complete with cost estimates and anticipated savings. Randolph's audit on his own gas-heated four-bedroom home in Hillcrest, N.Y., persuaded him to begin a three-year up grading that will lay foam insulation throughout the ground floor, put nine inches of insulation in the attic, install new siding and add a solar hot-water heater. Estimated cost...
...system under stress, however, solutions sometimes create problems. Massachusetts has become the first state in the nation to ban urea formaldehyde foam, the largest selling type of blown insulation. Public Health Commissioner Alfred Frechette says that "we find there is significant correlation between the foam insulation and such formaldehyde-linked illnesses as respiratory difficulties, eye and skin irritations, headaches, vomiting and severe irritation to the mucous membranes." Massachusetts estimates that some 7,000 houses in the state?and many more across the country?are insulated with formaldehyde. The cost of removing the stuff, where it can be removed, might...
...What is the curse?" Justin muttered, and then in a blur, the statuesque bear hurled itself toward him, intent on the venison Justin carried and Justin noticed the foam spewing from the bear's prognathous jaws...
...them was particularly disturbing, almost ready to foam at the mouth and looking something like a Dartmouth frat brat after a tough Friday night with the boys...
Then it hit, tearing into the fleet with Force 10 winds (between 55 and 63 m.p.h.) and waves up to 40 ft. Streaked white with a war paint of foam, the seas tossed the sleek yachts, which ranged in length from 27 ft. to 79 ft., as if they were balsa wood. Boats were capsized, righted and then swamped again, their crews suspended terrified in safety harnesses. Less fortunate yachtsmen were thrown about the decks or washed overboard. Said British Skipper Arthur Moss of Camargue: "Our steering [wheel], complete with a man attached, went soaring into...