Word: peakings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impossible to pinpoint the number of cheaters who have slipped through in Michigan and other states. A Georgia official estimates that at the peak last year 15% to 20% of jobless-benefit payouts in the state were going to people who had no crying need of assistance. But that would include housewives who worked for a while, then quit and legally collected full unemployment benefits. Most estimates of outright fraud now range nationally from 2% to 5%. The Federal Government's latest figures show that less than 1% of claims are made illegitimately-but that counts only the minority...
Ripple control is aimed at saving generating costs by turning off water heaters twice a day during periods of peak consumer demand, when electricity is most expensive to produce. So far, ripple control has worked: according to test results, the system has saved roughly $60 a year per heater in electricity costs, a saving that Green Mountain Power (G.M.P.) has returned to participants in the experiment in the form of monthly $5 rebates...
...Complaints. The figures suggest that if every water heater in the G.M.P. customer area were ripple-controlled, the utility could reduce its peak power load by 10%. Moreover, in the nine months since G.M.P. installed ripple control, not a single customer has complained. Indeed, since the water in the heaters stays hot for about four hours, and the heaters are rarely shut off for more than three hours at a time, ripple-controlled customers evidently have all the hot water they need available at any time. "Goodness," said Emma Breen as she took her signs down, "I've been...
...ironed out-was interference: electric garage-door openers were shutting off people's heaters. Another method under study by G.M.P. is thermal storage, which involves storing water heated to 280°F. in the home in pressurized tanks (to keep it from boiling away) for use during peak hours...
...Novelist Brian Moore, 54, turns a potential stale helping of white wine and sympathy into an enigmatic moral thriller. In bed with her lover, Sheila sounds just like the lapsed Catholic she is: "I am in grace. In my state of grace." But what drives her-at the peak of her new-found happiness-to contemplate suicide? She is also obsessed with a more mundane form of annihilation: "Those men you read about in newspaper stories who walk out of their homes saying they are going down to the corner to buy cigarettes and are never heard from again...