Word: pipes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...again. In 1979 a floating mini-OTEC plant generated a net 15 kilowatts per hour, making it the first such plant to produce more energy than it consumes. But a larger plant built in 1981 off Kailuakona, on Hawaii, was a $50 million failure: corrosion of the heat-exchange pipes by sea water and fouling by small marine plants and bacteria rendered the system useless in a matter of days. New pipe materials are being tested, and the state, undaunted, has ordered designs for four 10-megawatt OTEC plants...
...County offices. He stresses the value of ongoing therapy: "They don't consider it a crime until they're arrested. Then the real world comes crashing down on them. When you're 65 or 70 and are arrested for shoplifting, you want to take the gas pipe." His results are encouraging: of the 1,200 people who have enrolled over the four-year life of the program, less than 2% have been arrested again. Such counseling is still rare, however; meanwhile, the nation's population continues to grow older. It is no wonder that criminologists...
...cheap credits (just under 8%, vs. going commercial loan rates of about 15%) from the four major Western European countries involved in the project: West Germany, France, Italy and Britain. In exchange, industries in these countries are being rewarded with huge contracts to supply everything from 56-in. steel pipe to computerized monitoring systems...
...bottomless well soon may be tapped. Texans are talking of pumping water from the Mississippi River, which draws much of its volume out of the states in the Great Lakes watershed. Coal mining interests in Montana have approached Wisconsin for access to Lake Superior. They want to pipe water to the Montana coalfields, where it would be mixed with crushed coal to form a mudlike slurry that would in turn be fed to other parts of the country. uch schemes are not pipe dreams: South Dakota earlier this year agreed to sell 50,000 acre-ft. of Missouri River water...
...Daily Mail, "one supposes because they have so bloody little of it. But they have the best winners in tennis, and we have the best losers in the world, and tradition will always keep Wimbledon special, if not what it was." For Pignon, a picturesquely mustachioed man with a pipe and a paisley shirt, this was his 44th Wimbledon. "It used to be a way of life," he said, "much more gentle. The whole atmosphere of the place is commercial now, and of course it has to be. Now it is a T-shirt factory that also produces a world...