Word: pile
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which makes the appearance of Meltdown at Montague especially welcome. The pamphlet/book, compiled by a group of students and faculty at political trend-setting Hampshire College, details what would happen if a nuclear reactor's radioactive pile got out of control. Known in the trade as "meltdown" because the core reaches an incredible temperature and eventually fuses together--the process creates a virtually unstoppable reaction that releases large quantities of radiation into the atmosphere...
Some other reasons for thinking that the business slowdown will not deepen into recession: averaging out quarterly swings, the 42-month-long expansion has been moderate so far, and has not produced the excesses?a too rapid pile-up of business inventories, for example?that can be corrected only by recession. Consumer buying has held up fairly well, business investment in new plant and equipment is picking up a bit, and both should be spurred by the tax reduction of $16 billion to $18 billion a year that Congress is about to enact. In 1979, though, that cut will just...
Still, the basic mystery is mysterious enough, the antique manners of this genre have an inherent campiness that's fun, and there is a briskness of pace and enough mild wit to hold one's attention. By the end one is rather surprised at how high the pile of corpses is, which means that sufficient style was present to serve its traditional function in the puzzle mystery - distract us from the gore that of necessity lies at the center of this form. Which is a way of saying that they must have been doing something right here...
...first half until a Fred Cordova interception in the endzone snuffed a 60-yd, drive. Columbia finally did get on the scoreboard just before the end of the half on a well-orchestrated drive that saw tight ends Eric Blattman and Kevin Cook snag a pair of key receptions. Pile-driving fullback Joe Ciulla out of Woburn, Mass. perforated the Crimson line from two yards out for the score. Ron Taussig missed the point after attempt, but Columbia went into the lockerroom with a 6-3 edge...
...Good!" the student exclaimed as he thrust his blue book into the anonymous pile on the table and bounded away before anyone could identify him. Truly a case of success snatched from the jaw of failure...