Word: heated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...holds down the price, gas producers (mainly big oil companies) berate the agency for not giving them an incentive to explore for new gas reserves. If the FPC lets prices rise, consumers set up a howl-and some 45 million American homes and businesses depend on the fuel for heat or power...
Long before William Butler Yeats wrote these words, scientists dreamed of harnessing and storing the awesome energy of the sun. For Donald Hyde, a Stow, Mass., manufacturer, and thousands of other Americans, those dreams are becoming a reality. The sun provides most of the heat for Hyde's modern cedar-walled house, keeping its temperature at a comfortable 68° to 70° F. during even the coldest days of a New England winter. Solar energy also warms the water in Hyde's 16-ft. by 30-ft., kidney-shaped swimming pool. Putting the sun to work saves...
Solar energy is being tapped in many strange and wondrous ways. In New Mexico, where the sun is seldom obscured by clouds. Inventor Steve Baer heats his futuristic-looking home by means of a "passive" solar system that has a minimum of mechanical components. The south-facing walls of Baer's home outside Albuquerque are floor-to-ceiling windows, and behind these glass panels are walls composed of water-filled 55-gal. steel drums. The drums absorb the sun's heat by day, radiate it at night when the windows are covered by huge clamshell-like shutters...
...Federal spending. Businessmen are concerned about Carter's apparent plan to juice up the economy by cutting taxes and other pump-priming measures next year. "He faces a terrible temptation to heat things up," says Thomas Ayers, the chairman of Chicago's Commonwealth Edison. "I hope he chooses a moderate course." Declares Norman Robertson, senior vice president and chief economist of Pittsburgh's Mellon Bank: "If he should try to adopt the Humphrey-Hawkins bill [which calls for heavy spending on public-service employment] or something like it, trying to reach a predetermined level of unemployment...
...worse than food in any other Harvard House are slightly off track. One central Harvard dining hall kitchen feeds into all three of these Houses, in addition to Kirkland and Eliot. All that differs in behind-the-counter food from one of these Houses to the next is the heat of the meat and the cool of the gruel...