Word: heatings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead of snow football, we yardlings must play mud football. Instead of warming our shivering bodies by winter fires, we have to turn off our heat. Instead of Kahlua and cocoa, we have diet Sprite...
Previously all dormitory thermostats were set at 68 degrees in the daytime, and turned down to 64 degrees at 11 p.m. But since winter vacation ended, the heaters have been kept at 68 degrees until 1 a.m., providing students with an additional two hours of heat...
Last fall some members of the Undergraduate Council's residential committee met with Assistant Dean for the House System Thomas A. Dingman '67 and voiced a concern that turning the heat down at 11 p.m. did not match the students' working hours. After an investigation of the heating policy, the council's Committee on House Life agreed to the change, Dingman said...
...touch- sensitive video screens. One tap on the screen of a typical system brings up a schematic diagram of the house. Another tap produces a display of the air temperature in every room. By selecting from a series of menu choices, the homeowner can tell the house to heat the bedrooms to a comfy 72 degrees F while leaving the rest of the rooms at an energy-saving 65 degrees. Or a family can order the air conditioning turned off while they are out of town and restarted three hours before they are due home. Once instructions have been recorded...
...recent years that CDWs are a lemon of a deal at the usual rate of $10 or more a day. Robert Hunter, president of the National Insurance Consumer Organization, calculates that insurance companies can provide policyholders with comparable protection for about $1 a day. The CDW controversy began to heat up in 1987, when many rental agencies removed the ceiling on customer damage liability, which was typically $3,000, and began holding motorists responsible for the full value of the cars they were renting. That threat helped car-rental clerks persuade more customers to accept the CDW. Acknowledges Russell James...