Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hall maintains, however, that he has saved the University millions of dollars through automation and has managed to keep heating costs from skyrocketing, despite great increases in fuel prices in recent years...
Champagne flowed at a rate that rivaled that of the Olympus engines' fuel consumption. At mach 2 (1,320 m.p.h.) which we passed without a tremor, came the food-smoked salmon, rib of veal, château potatoes, cheese, apricot pastry, Chablis Vaudésir and Château Haut-Brion, plus liqueurs. Many passengers paid the smoothness of supersonic flight the ultimate compliment; they fell asleep. We touched down in Dakar, West Africa, right on schedule, refueled and were on our way to Rio in an hour. A minor engine problem held our speed below mach...
...postscript: Nickel returned to London by subsonic jet, taking 9½ hr. door to door, including stops in Vienna and Amsterdam. The Concorde carries 100 passengers from London to Bahrain, but only 71 the other way; takeoff temperatures, head winds and weather delays in Europe require more fuel...
Manne said that the $300 billion "is not worth paying" and that "it would make better sense to allocate a fraction of this amount to further improvements in nuclear safety," and advocated a minimum-cost combination of energy conservation, fossil fuel power production, and some nuclear energy...
However, the breeder reactor--which is now experimental--will use purified fuel. Although none of the experimental breeders that produce their own fuel are operating in the United States, Wilson said yesterday that "it's reasonable to say the breeder will be in commercial operation...