Word: meters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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 to come and read it. More important, perhaps, the utility can also manipulate the customer's load by computer to arrive at maximum efficiency. A. S. & E. Marketing Manager Ralph Abbott...
Many whites have jobs which blacks could perform just as well, and both blacks and whites realize it. White shopkeepers, barbers, meter maids, and salesmen view the blacks as an economic threat. They support legislation which bars Africans from "modern" occupations and forces them to struggle along with traditional practices and European hand-me-downs or rejected tools...
...when we win even less than we did this year." Urging Government subsidies of $10,000 a year for top U.S. amateurs, Robinson added, "It's tough to beat athletes from other countries when they are kept like professionals." One U.S. gold medalist who disagreed was 400-meter Hurdler Edwin Moses (47.64 sec.), a physics major at Morehouse College in Atlanta. His view: "I run because I like...
...from the merely good ones; Bill Russell delivered intelligent and humane analyses of the basketball games with casual grace; and Marty Liquori, drawing on a decade of running experience, alerted viewers to the explosive potential of Cuba's all but unknown Alberto Juantorena before he won the 800-meter race...
...little could detract from ABC's superb pictures of the events themselves. Nadia Comaneci performing her flawless routines in a trance of innocence. Olga Korbut turning into an instant Edith Piaf. Gymnast Shun Fujimoto's kamikaze dismount with a broken knee. The victory lap after the 400-meter hurdles when Gold Medal Winner Ed Moses and Silver Medalist Mike Shine loped round the track in joyous exhaustion. Weightlifter Vasili Alexeyev looking like the Buddha meditating over 561 I=lbs. of iron...