Word: jims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fitch, who will remain with the club as a consultant, had a year left on his contract, but his decision to step down as coach came as no surprise. His status has been in question since December, when there were reports that former North Carolina State coach Jim Valvano would replace...
...next stop on our morning tour, Jim Serdy pointed to the roof of a house which is completely covered in solar panels. "This started as an attic renovation, and sort of evolved...
...Jim is a solar professional; he installs solar heating systems in houses. Jim spoke to us in the technical language of solar contracting. He spoke of structural attachment points, insulated thermal blinds, weather surfaces, triple glazed window systems, release temperature, mean-radiant temperature, stick-framing, R-factors, maintenance-free super-insulated maximum-efficiency collectors, and unstratified heat...
...went into the basement and saw a 2000-gallon water drum that Jim had made out of copper. Water heats in the solar panels up on the roof, and flows down to this thermal bank. An industrial computer listens to thermometers throughout the house and controls a pump which sends hot water to cool places. The water flows through a rubber tube under the strips of metal that Jim called "radiant." The water warms the radiant, and the radiant warms the room...
Under the rule of Jim Crow, blacks were united by the struggle against racial oppression and tended to speak with one voice. Today the expansion of opportunities has allowed African Americans to split along economic lines; the & interests of the relatively well-off middle class are not the same as those of the poor. As a result, skin color alone is no longer a reliable guide to blacks' political attitudes, which range from the antiwar radicalism of Oakland Congressman Ron Dellums to the conservativism of Stanford University economist Thomas Sowell. Yet many blacks cling to an old tradition of rallying...