Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...massive project marks a grim scientific milestone of sorts. While retrospective studies were made of Japanese A-bomb victims after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this is the first ever undertaken to examine effects of low-level radiation from essentially the time of exposure. The HEW studies at a glance...
...indomitable mother of a struggling Norwegian immigrant brood. Unfortunately, the only thing she gets right is her accent. Ullmann is no singer, and she croaks out her numbers with nary a trace of that speechifying grace that Rex Harrison brought to My Fair Lady. With her disconcertingly low voice and brisk delivery, it sometimes seems as if she is barking out orders, like some displaced storm trooper...
...gouging by individual members has pushed up charges for some grades of crude to $20 or more per bbl. Lately cartel members have been leapfrogging each other to grab ever higher prices. No sooner did Algeria and Nigeria post unilateral increases of up to $2.45 per bbl. on their low-sulfur crude than Libya raised the price of its own competing grade by a comparable amount. The increase, Libya's second in a month, was promptly followed by a rise by Iraq as well. Even Saudi Arabia, which is generally regarded as a pricing moderate in the cartel, tacked...
There are three problems. The reservoirs often can be as difficult to find as oil deposits; they are close to the surface in only a few areas; and the steam usually has a relatively low temperature that is not very efficient for turning turbines. But the energy is essentially inexhaustible, environmentally benign and, above all, free...
Since dams have already been built on most commercially promising sites around the nation that have steep drops as well as fast and large river flows, the greatest enthusiasm now is for the restoration of "low head" dams (less than 65 ft. high) to supply power to local communities and industries. The New England Congressional Caucus, a group of the area's federal representatives, puts the potential regional saving from new dams at up to 19 million bbl. of oil a year, or as much as the U.S. uses...