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...URENCO uranium-enrichment facility at Almelo, also in the Netherlands. The plant is today one of Western Europe's major sources of low-enriched uranium for nuclear reactors. High-speed gas centrifuges like those at URENCO -- thousands of devices lined up in rows like washing machines in a laundromat -- can also be used to produce the highly enriched uranium needed for atomic weapons...
...Illinois at a glossy truck stop that offers all mechanical services, motel rooms, showers, Laundromat, game room, TV lounge, truckers' bulletin board and a stack of newspapers published by the Association of Christian Truckers. Piped-in music fills...
...businesses four years ago at 38, discovered "there's only so much fishing a man can do." With $12,500, which this industry calls a pittance, he bought a Buckpasser grandson, and converted his cattle ranch to a horse farm. Not so long ago, Trainer Cam Gambolati was a Laundromat operator and a statistician on a Tampa Bay Buccaneers football team that won as few as no games a year...
...idea that one may find Prometheus chained to the dryer in a local laundromat, with the culture picking his brains as to which soda is better, is certainly droll; but it seems less an analysis of modern technology than a too plausible suggestion for Harvard's decadent undergraduate theater...
After doing odd jobs at first, Marino Sik worked for the state highway department for twelve years. In 1971, with so much traffic passing their door every day, he and Carol started a highway business that included a grocery, Laundromat and showers. They sold it in 1977, tired of working 18-hour days. A few months later, just as they were finishing their new three-bedroom house, they again got wanderlust. With their daughter and the two boys who had been born in Alaska, they moved to Las Vegas, where Marino ran a gas station. "We wanted to show...