Word: peakings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which 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...
...region is now well on the way to full recovery. Says Economist Ratajczak: "Next year half of the states in the South will have exceeded the 1974 peak in payroll employment from manufacturing, whereas most of the other states in the U.S. will still be behind." Despite worry that the sweeping development of the region could eventually hurt the environment and the South's unhurried style of living, the mood is optimistic. The feeling is that whatever problems the future holds, the region is finally moving out of the shadow of the North and into a bright...
...Texas is booming. One example: employment at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center near Houston is down to 3,722 from its 1967 peak of 5,064. But the old Texas exuberance is as bubbly as ever. Says Houston Developer Gerald Hines, 51, who came to Texas from Gary, Ind., in 1948 and has built projects valued at half a billion dollars: "I think I could have made it in the North, but what might take a person with the right ideas 30 years to do up there, he might do in ten years here...
Death Revealed. Nanda Devi Unsoeld, 22, an Olympia, Wash., coed and daughter of one of the first Americans to scale Mt. Everest (in 1963); of "acute high-altitude sickness" while on an expedition with her father on Nanda Devi, the 25,645-ft. peak in the Himalayas for which she was named; on Sept...
Former Master Stewart says the job of Radcliffe president and dean is now a very different one than a decade ago when Bunting was at her peak. "The president of Radcliffe is in a rather restricted position--not a completely free agent. The job entails much more diplomacy and negotiation. It's less a job of setting policy for Radcliffe than finding the best way to fit Radcliffe into Harvard...