Word: outputs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Water pressure dropped ominously as sweltering city dwellers illegally opened fire hydrants to wet themselves down. Utility companies set power-output records in Milwaukee, Boston, New York and other cities, and air-conditioner salesmen could scarcely keep up with demand. Newspaper-headline writers warmed to the occasion. The New York Daily News ran, AT 102°, WE'RE A BAKED APPLE, and the Boston Globe, ON THE 5TH DAY OF SIMMER...
...deferred 96 others. Among the reasons: harassment by environmentalists, government red tape and delays, the difficulty of financing. Says Robert Kirby, chairman of Westinghouse, the biggest builder of nuclear reactors: "We increasingly will be faced with brownouts and blackouts unless we do something to bolster our total power output...
...Output Threatened. In the Northwest, drought has threatened the output of river-based hydroelectric generators. "The future for the Pacific Northwest is very grim," says Dan Schausten, an executive of the Bonneville Power Administration, which services Washington, Oregon, Idaho and western Montana. If the drought persists next year, B.P.A. may impose electricity cutbacks-and, in the worst case, rotate scheduled blackouts among the communities it serves. A similar rotation of brief blackouts was imposed on Jan. 17 by Virginia Electric & Power and the Southern Co. when demand for heating during the big freeze-combined with equipment shutdowns elsewhere...
...West Coast. Between the time that oil was discovered and this week's turn-on, the nation went through two recessions, and the growth of oil demand has slowed, especially in California. Existing West Coast refineries could handle only a little more than half the pipeline's output by year's end -and they would require expensive adjustments to do even that...
...third of the world's supply, will harvest about 17 million bags of beans in the crop year that begins Oct. 1-not far from double the 1976-77 crop of 9.5 million bags. In all, world production this year should increase about 14%. That would still leave output about 9% below pre-frost totals, but U.S. Agriculture Department experts are optimistic. Says one: "If we get past this growing season without a bad frost, we'll definitely be headed back toward pre-1975 production...