Word: hp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turns out that America's 89 million small garden engines are fouling the very land they tend. Gas-guzzling lawn mowers, leaf blowers, weed cutters and the like produce 5% of U.S. air pollution overall, and a good deal more in many metropolitan areas. A dirty, inefficient 3.5-hp. gas mower emits the same amount of hydrocarbons in one hour as does a new car driven 340 miles. A chain saw operated for two hours produces hydrocarbons equivalent to those emitted by a new car driven 3,000 miles. Furthermore, the Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 17 million...
...yachting or casino crawling. With salaries for researchers that start at about $90,000 and can climb well over $500,000 for those who excel, they could afford to dress with the flash of yesterday's gunslingers. Most don't. An atypical Merrill Lynch computer jock keeps a 360-hp speedboat in Westport, Connecticut. This appears to embarrass him, and he blusters, "That's not who I am, and if you don't tell me right now that you're not going to put it in the article, I'm going to have to get serious and call our public...
Intrepid first-years should put away their HP calculators and get out their incense and a copy of the Necronomicon, or perhaps attempt to sacrifice a bull on the John Harvard statue. The Housing Gods cannot be swayed cheaply...
Students have already begun to use the learning center and the computers, an HP Apollo 9000, Model 720 and an HP 700/RX. Five students are currently designing independent projects on the computing stations...