Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...south and the Baluchis in the southeast. All of Azerbaijan now appears to be virtually under the control of forces loyal to Ayatullah Seyed Kazem Sharietmadari, Khomeini's chief rival (see following story). Late in the week, local air force and army units joined in a huge demonstration in favor of Sharietmadari in Tabriz (pop. 500,000), capital of East Azerbaijan province. In addition, Iraqi forces firing heavy artillery attacked an Iranian border post; Tehran Radio said several people were killed before the Iraqis withdrew...
...Anderson, 49, who in 1977 left as Amoco's $44,500 manager of field training in the Atlanta office, says that he was "paymaster" for a group of executives who regularly dipped into an often replenished $400,000 "training fund" that was nominally under his control. The huge pot was never audited by Amoco or Standard of Indiana accountants, or revealed to the company's out side auditors. Anderson claims to have dispensed about $1 million from 1972 to 1977 for as many as 50 of the company's southeastern regional executives...
...proposes that heat pumps be employed to warm the building in winter, simultaneously making ice that will be stored in huge underground bunkers until sum mer, when it can be used to cool the structures without consuming electricity. Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, the architectural firm renowned for its skyscrapers, is constructing an energy-efficient cube-shaped building for Draper and Kramer in Chicago that features three sunlit atriums. Architect Gunnar Birkerts' 14-story IBM building in Detroit is black on its north and east sides, to absorb heat, and silver on its south and west sides, to reflect...
Burlington, Vt., uses wood chips to fire boilers in its municipally owned power plant. But doubts are rising about such large-scale woodburning. Huge chippers that swallow entire trees are used for harvesting; since they leave no small limbs to rot and replenish the forest, the practice can amount to mining the thin topsoil. "In 50 years," says one observer, "New England could look like Lebanon." President Nick Muller of Colby-Sawyer College in New London, N.H., has another sort of woodburning in mind. He wants to build a $1.75 million central heating plant fueled by sawdust from nearby sawmills...
...nation's present oil imports. The Canadians, who have been drilling in their sector of the Beaufort Sea for two years, are very bullish on it: this fall Dome Petroleum Ltd. brought in a 20,000 bbl.-a-day strike, the biggest ever made in Canada. But huge expenses (Dome's well cost $70 million), heavy ice, storms and temperatures as low as - 60° F are only some of the hazards confronting U.S. development of the Beaufort Sea. An all-too-familiar problem: bureaucratic and environmental barriers are holding up progress...