Word: loads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...compulsive gambler and is now a gigolo in a nightclub. The woman he lives with is the club hustler (Suzanne Lederer). The conversational pas de trois that these three engage in is replete with bitterness and non-sequitur absurdist humor. The performers are also forced to carry an elephantine load of symbolism...
Jonathan Silver '79 waited patiently at the end of a longish line, struggling under a 24-book load...
...water run through turbines in the upper dam would be retained in the reservoir formed by the lower dam and then pumped back. The objective of the so-called Blue Ridge Project was to increase Appalachian's already enormous generating capacity by a significant 10%, providing more peak-load power for customers in Ohio...
...Western Europe, where electric power has always been expensive, ripple control has been in use for 30 years. But in the U.S., rising fuel prices and increased construction and operating costs have only recently forced utilities to earnestly consider what utility company engineers call load management-controlling the amount of electric power delivered to the customer-as a way of reducing the need for repeated expansion of generating capacities. In Michigan, for example, the Detroit Edison Co. is testing a method of shutting off water heaters by radio control. One of the early difficulties with some systems using this approach...
Aside from ripple control, so far the most feasible system for managing electrical load may be one developed by a firm based in Cambridge, Mass., called American Science & Engineering Inc. Its method, a bidirectional power-line carrier, is currently undergoing testing in homes in New Jersey and Wisconsin. The system costs $175 per installation, v. $79 for the ripple controller. But it allows for two-way communication between a utility and a household with two apparent advantages over ripple control: meter information can be conveyed directly through the system, thus obviating the need for an extra meter and someone...