Word: gal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gravy train is slowing down. The Reagan Administration, which is cool to mass transit, initially declared a ban on funding for new rail systems and sought to phase out operating assistance by 1985. Pork-barrel-hungry Congressmen, however, objected to both moves. With the passage of the 5?-per-gal. gasoline tax, and its one penny for mass transit, the Administration agreed to lift the ban. But Reagan did persuade Congress to whittle operating subsidies by 21%, and in this fiscal year alone won an overall $400 million cut in capital spending. The gas tax raised $779 million for mass...
...that when we throw up an idea and give it a little knock, it might... travel. "Still, there is something adolescent about the intensity of Henry's ardor, whether for the sweetest pop music from the mid-1960s (his own teen-age years) or for his one-gal-guy idealism (the play describes Annie as "very much like the woman whom Charlotte has ceased to be," so in effect Henry has been faithful to his belle idéale by switching mates). As this little boy lost in the web of words and wonders, Rees was a jumping-jack...
...state-owned structure's basic secret: three swimming-pool-size, 250,000-gal. concrete water tanks resting in the basement. Like giant thermos bottles, these insulated containers can store heat, which can be tapped at will. In daytime, when the building's population is at its peak and office machinery is working full blast, the air in the central core of the building rapidly warms up. (The human body in a 72°F room gives off 250 B.T.U.s per hour, about equal to the heat from a 75-watt light bulb.) This hot air is propelled through...
...building would require some 45% more electricity to power the fans, sensors, heat pumps and large computer that operate the heating-cooling system. Nonetheless, they figure that when total costs are added up, they will be far ahead of the game. The self-heating scheme should save 740,000 gal. of oil a year (current cost: about $850,000) , for a net saving of nearly $400,000 annually...
...Harbor Lawn Mount Olive Mortuary, Cemetery and Crematory in Costa Mesa, Calif., is accused of even grislier practices. To handle its backlog of bodies, former employees claim, the mortuary crammed corpses five at a time into gas ovens built for one. The jumbled ashes were allegedly dumped into 30-gal. trash cans. Then, says Bob Kilburn, a funeral refrigeration-supply manufacturer who installed a cooler at Harbor Lawn three years ago, "they'd scoop up ashes with a pail and fill ten cardboard boxes, type up ten labels and proceed to make ten people." In other words, the remains...