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...lights at 6 p.m. unless instructed to leave some on. Advanced sodium-vapor light fixtures focus illumination on desks instead of dispersing the glow throughout the room. This alone should cut electricity use for lighting by half. A 300,000-gal. underground tank stores water that is chilled overnight when power costs are lower; the water is then used in the air-conditioning system during the daytime. Jobs that require work at unusual hours will be concentrated in an adjoining three-story building so that the taller structure is not heated or cooled unnecessarily. In all, Georgia Power expects these...
Sixth precinct detectives released the officers immediately after questioning but held Chen overnight and charged him with menacing. Chinatown residents said the police listened only to the housing officers and refused to believe Chen. The officers charged that Lin and Chen were drunk and that they hit Lin in self-defense after he attacked them...
...hour and his wife attended services at the Bel Air Presbyterian Church and then went into seclusion. The President-elect spent the week riding, chopping wood and relaxing with Nancy on their California ranch. But from midweek on, Ronald Reagan's emissaries streamed into Washington, packing the "redeye" overnight flights from the West Coast. Said one adviser: "A lot of tired people are trying to get things going." They faced one of the most intricate tasks in democratic government: arranging a transfer of power from a defeated Administration to an incoming regime vastly different in philosophy, policies...
Conservatives in the Senate similarly talked about preventing Tennessee's Howard Baker, the current minority leader, from becoming majority leader in the new Senate. A major complaint against Baker: he voted for the Panama Canal treaties. But Nevada's Paul Laxalt, overnight one of Washington's most powerful men, promptly squelched that minirebellion...
...immediate results," he says. "Everyone is wondering how you are going to increase defense spending and balance the budget. It will not be done in one year. It will be done over the President's first term in office. We did not get into this mess overnight, and we are not going to get out of it overnight...