Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York Islanders 5, New Jersey...
...Jersey 110. Los Angeles...
...feeling that I'm back on the set filming Hellcats of the Navy. " Thus quipped Ronald Reagan last week at a scene reminiscent both of old-time Hollywood and of World War II: the recommissioning at California's Long Beach Naval Ship yard of the battleship New Jersey, launched in 1942 and now demothballed for a third time...
Critics joke that the battleship is so vulnerable it should be renamed the U.S.S. Sitting Duck. The Navy insists that more than ten hits by nonnuclear Soviet cruise missiles would be required to put it out of action. Reagan, noting that the New Jersey had cost $326 million to demothball, called the ship "a shining example" of "the maximum cost-effective application of high technology to existing assets...
...report issued by the society, Physicist Larry Medsker of the New Jersey Institute of Technology surveys nine renewable energy sources and finds that all have potentially unwelcome, occasionally even hazardous, side effects. The burning of wood can deplete forests and increase air pollution. Building towers to harness wind may disrupt wildlife habitats and the migratory flights of birds. Fires in homes with photovoltaic cells can result in the release of noxious fumes. And direct use of the sun could add to urban sprawl since collection devices are not as efficient in high-rise apartments as they are in small houses...