Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...being swallowed by a relatively small regional airline, and in fact they had been talking merger with Pan Am since January. Pan Am is stronger than it has been in years. Not long ago, there were fears that it might go bankrupt because of the pressures of rising fuel prices and unprofitable overseas routes, especially after the company lost $107 million in 1974. But under Chairman William Seawell, who curbed costs and restored staff morale, Pan Am's fortunes have improved sharply. Profits reached $45 million last year on revenues of nearly $2 billion, and are piling...
Using Einstein's equations, astronomers determined that after all of the nuclear fuel is consumed, gravity eventually would cause the star to contract into a white dwarf, a sphere only about as big as the earth but so dense that each cubic centimeter would weigh a ton. Their calculations finally made sense of a dim companion of the star Sirius that was first observed in the 1860s and had puzzled astronomers for decades. Though the star was apparently small, it exerted an inexplicably great gravitational pull on Sirius. The dense little companion?like others that have been observed since?...
...much the dark lady of a thou sand bad screenplays, that the entire audience giggles every time she talks without moving her lips? And, finally, how come the Department of Energy didn't shut this picture down? It must have cost Kuwait's entire monthly output to fuel this non sense, with a resultant entertainment value somewhat beneath James Schlesinger's latest speech...
...electricity bills merely by removing the fluorescent bulbs in its shop-floor vending machines. North Carolina's Sanford Brick and Tile Co. (350 employees) is taking advantage of the mountains of sawdust discarded by nearby furniture factories: it is combining the sawdust with either natural gas or diesel fuel to cut the cost of firing its baking kilns...
Raytheon Co. Since 1973, the electronics company's business has grown 75%, to $2.8 billion annually, but its use of fuel oil, natural gas and electricity has been cut by about 25%. Automatic shut-off timers have been installed on everything from coffee makers to light switches in corridors. Any worker who wanders off leaving a piece of factory machinery running gets a large Day-Glo orange "energy conservation ticket" slapped on his equipment by company inspectors, who are constantly on the prowl for offenses...