Word: fueled
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After popular Andrew Jackson was done out of the presidency in 1824.* the demand for reform intensified. Fuel was added to the flames in 1876, when Democrat Samuel J. Tilden outcounted Republican Rutherford B. Hayes in popular votes, but lost on the electoral tally in a contest that reeked of bribery and ballot stuffing. In 1888 Democrat Grover Cleveland won a popular plurality, but Republican Benjamin Harrison carried the college. As years passed, reformers proposed more than 100 constitutional amendments that would change the electoral college system, but conservatives and champions of the federal system scuttled them...
Despite the unending technical and mechanical complications, Polaris subs are built to stay at sea up to three years. They are untethered by the standard submarine's fuel and oxygen limitations. They can manufacture their own atmosphere without surfacing. Only the limitations of human endurance will require that they make port every two months. In home port for Washington and Henry will be the Polaris sub tender Proteus, stationed at Holy Loch, an anchorage in Scotland's River Clyde. Each ship will have a second, fully trained crew waiting to take her back to sea. With fresh "Blue...
...executives. In response to President Gordon McGregor's desire to increase the number of travelers by decreasing the cost of traveling, the team re-examined the entire airline cost structure. They concluded that since take-offs and landings are the most expensive part of every flight (heavy fuel consumption, airport fees, ground expenses), fares should not be calculated on a straight price-per-mile basis. Instead, statisticians worked out a new cost curve that drops as flights get longer. Thus, round-trip flights from Montreal to Vancouver, now $246, could be cut to as low as $182, while...
...power functions (82% of all its assets) have long been self-supporting and self-liquidating. TVA prospers partly because it pays no taxes. Instead, it returns 5% of its gross (excluding sales to federal agencies) to states and counties. Its coal supplies are so conveniently located that its fuel costs are only 60% of the national average. Its management is low-salaried: its three managing directors make only $20,000 a year each...
...service to help pay for themselves. It has also been hurt more than the other airlines by the Electra's troubles since it has the largest (40) fleet. The cost of operating the Electras has increased 60.7% because they now take longer to fly the routes, use more fuel, and cost more in crew...