Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American utilities have a lot to answer for. The U.S., with 5% of the world's population, produces a quarter of the global output of carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas, of which fully one-third comes directly from the smokestacks of the companies that supply Americans with their heat and electric power...
...output of several new power plants -- by encouraging customers to use energy more efficiently. New England Electric, which has one of the nation's most ambitious conservation programs, sends bright yellow vans into neighborhoods in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, giving away efficient fluorescent lights and wrapping water heaters with heat- retaining blankets. Similar programs have been launched by Central Maine Power, Wisconsin Power & Light and Puget Sound Power & Light...
...more closely to what's tickling your subconscious. In many cases you did hear that sound before, maybe long ago. It's the James Brown beat that's now in a rapper's groove, or the recycled '60s riff in a current dance- floor hit. It's the steam heat of the early '80s hit Under Pressure recycled in the vanilla-rap hit Ice Ice Baby, and the streak of the funk classic Super Freak revived for M.C. Hammer's U Can't Touch This...
...that the oil fires caused the trouble. On the basis of fluctuations in Pacific Ocean temperatures, Jagadish Shukla, director of the University of Maryland's Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Interactions, is predicting that this year's rains will be less than normal. Shukla and others wonder whether the heat from the fires is sufficient to affect a system as large as the monsoon. El-Baz readily admits that his theory is riddled with unknowns, but he asserts that the dispersion pattern of the dust and oil indicates that a high-pressure system, which could drive the grimy cloud southward...
Humphreys laid claim to this distinctive territory in Dreams of Sleep and Rich in Love. The Fireman's Fair should establish clear title. Her seemingly effortless sense of character and place comes from a life-long association with the Low Country and its ways. Like summer heat lightning, her style is subdued and swiftly illuminating. She is also a witty observer of regional manners. A black character, chary about New South liberalism, is described as multilingual since "he could speak the language that his listener wanted to hear...