Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...controversy that continues to swirl around the chief of staff presents his boss with a dilemma. Sununu has been extremely useful to Bush as a lightning rod, absorbing political heat that might otherwise burn a popular President. Now Sununu is generating the heat and turning into a potential liability. Aides say that Bush, while annoyed at Sununu's excesses, continues to value his services. The President, they say, hopes that Gray's investigation will allow Sununu to "correct" his travel reimbursements and put the matter behind him. But that can only happen if Sununu stops stonewalling and explains, fully...
...club would have to find two faculty advisors and apply to the Committee on College Life if it wanted official recognition, Jewett said. He added that such recognition could bring the clubs advantages such as access to University telephone service and steam heat and disadvantages such as stricter enforcement of rules against underage drinking...
...nuclear reactors work by splitting large atoms into smaller pieces, producing heat. The danger is that the nuclear fuel, unless properly cooled, can overheat and melt through containment walls, releasing radioactivity into the environment. Most commercial reactors guard against meltdown by ensuring that the fuel is always surrounded by circulating coolant, usually ordinary / water. But what if a pipe bursts and the water is lost? Or if the water boils off? To prevent such mishaps, today's reactors have backup systems and backups to the backups. But no matter how many layers of redundancy are built into a conventional reactor...
...that they cannot hold enough fuel to produce such temperatures. The fuel consists of tiny grains of enriched uranium that are coated in ceramic and embedded in billiard ball-size "pebbles" of graphite. The reactor needs no safety cooling system; helium gas flowing through the core simply carries away heat to power a turbine. Even if all the gas escaped, the core could not melt down. Lawrence Lidsky, an M.I.T. professor of nuclear engineering, calls such reactors "inherently safe" because they rely on the laws of nature rather than human intervention to prevent a major accident...
...prep school fraternizing. No fact, it appears, is too intrusive or too repetitive for Tifft and Jones; the point that these communications moguls were personally inept at communicating is made over and over, as is the matching irony that a pair of chilly, detached parents felt lifelong sexual heat for each other. Amid all this, however, is a thoughtful group portrait wrapped into a cautionary tale about wealth: half the family were crushed by the burden of duty, the other half laid waste by wantonness...