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...early going made a lavish presentation for '84, by the late-1977 deadline Los Angeles was the sole applicant for the honor. Not just in the U.S.?throughout the world. The only other city thinking of bidding was Tehran. This was the state of the Olympic dream, a pipedream...
...suggested a way of easing this imbalance by diverting the northerly-flowing Pechora River into the Volga, the great river that sustains much of southern Russia. But even in the 1930s, the Stalinist heyday of dam building and hydroelectric construction, the scheme was considered no more than a mammoth pipedream...
...resonance. Whence came the ravaged joys of marriage? How may one survive the illusions of youth and the disenchantments of middle age? Did the dance of life do for me what I did for love? And how may one dance under the pin drift of mechanical Stardust without the pipedream of romance...
...scenario calling for complete U.S. freedom from foreign oil supplies is probably a petro-pipedream. But the notion of using solar satellites to capture vast amounts of energy may not be very farfetched at all. In spite of considerable scoffing at the sci-fi grandiosity of the idea, a report published last week, after a threeyear, $19.5 million study undertaken by the Department of Energy in collaboration with NASA, indicates that there are no insurmountable technological hurdles in the way of solar power satellites (SPS) as a major alternative energy source...
...such prayers are a simplistic pipedream at Harvard. This is because Harvard is a particularly stolid institution, well-rooted and paralyzed by tradition. Brown University, for example, no longer takes any kind of action against students who fail one--or even two--courses per semester. The only requirement the university poses to a student who fails a course is that the credit must be made up in order for the student to graduate...