Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small companies are turning to solar at the marketing end. The New England Fuel Institute, an association of 1,300 independent fuel oil distributors, sells conventional rooftop solar panels to its home-owning customers and trains technicians to install and service solar units. Says President Charles Burkhardt: "We see that solar is coming, and we want to control as much of the market as we can." Solar Appliance Centers Inc. of New York City is now franchising its highly successful retail shops, which sell such products as solar-powered calculators ($40) and showers for camping...
Later, as a novelist, he helped fuel the age of French romanticism; as a polemicist he daringly attacked Napoleon; as a politician he served as Louis XVIII's foreign minister. En route, he out-Byroned Byron; few of Europe's great beauties-or, possibly, his sister-could resist the arrogant, magnetic aristocrat...
...liquid form, but the vast majority of those sold overseas are powders which require the addition of water. In many underdeveloped areas, no clean water is available--so sewage -fouled and bacteria-infested water ends up being fed to babies. In addition, many poor mothers lack the pots and/or fuel necessary to boil and therefore sterilize the one bottle and nipple they own. Because the formula is so expensive, it is quite often diluted so that its nutritional content is far from adequate; and some families compose look-alike substitutes out of corn starch and water or tea once...
...fired plants. Nationwide, Chase Econometrics calculates that by 1985 the total cost of converting old oil-or gas-burning plants might reach $60 billion. That figure does not include the cost of constructing new coal-fired plants, since many of those factories would have to be built anyway, whatever fuel was used to power them-but the cost will nonetheless be huge...
Time has not been kind to U.S. airlines. Poor financial health has robbed some of the biggest carriers of vitality in recent years, limiting their ability to replace aging, noisy, fuel-inefficient aircraft, some of them two decades old. But now passenger traffic is up, some lines are reporting profits or lower losses, and not much time is left to start replacing obsolescent airplanes-so the big carriers have begun moving on aircraft purchases that could total $80 billion by the end of the 1980s. Last week two lines signed deals for $1.3 billion, the first sizable jet buys since...