Word: plante
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...since the accident at the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania, more people have been calling the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) information office to find out about the nuclear research reactor at MIT in Cambridge's backyard...
...plate dinner in Foggy Bottom. The appetizers included quail eggs stuffed with caviar and a bipartisan receiving line comprising Vance and his three living predecessors, Henry Kissinger, William Rogers and Dean Rusk. They and the guests sat down to a dinner of rockfish, roast pheasant, oyster plant on artichoke bottoms, wild rice with water chestnuts, salmagundi salad and brie, along with a '76 Pommard and toasts in '69 Dom Pérignon. It was a menu that first Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson might have served. But to 177 people? Only if Jefferson too charged...
...fight, this time, has been over the Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP), a Harvard-financed $130 million project that threatens to become a $130 million white elephant...
...lumbered forward, when an official from the state Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE) suggested that MATEP be allowed to install the diesel engines it needs to produce energy. Way back in January 1978, another DEQE official said "no" to the diesels, and community groups--which fear the power plant may send clouds of noxious nitrogen dioxide into their homes--let out a resounding cheer...
While all looked good this week for MATEP on the surface, however, the DEQE official who will make the final decision on the plant just hemmed and hawed some more. But informed sources say some kind of decision may come wafting down from above within two weeks...