Word: powder
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...receiving their disability pensions. I know a woman who applied for 'single provider assistance.' She is still waiting for an answer and her 'child' is now 35 years old." Complains Kjell Lorentsen, a schoolmaster in northern Norway: "Responsibility for any decision seems to dissolve into powder...
...city's elegant cafés and restaurants serve rich pastries and gourmet meals without the sullen service all too common in other East European cities. Billboards and newspapers (although not television) display imaginative and colorful ads urging consumers to buy a myriad of goods, from baby powder to air mattresses. To the rare visitors from the Soviet Union, most of this is unbelievable. One Russian, gazing into a Budapest show window, could not believe that the department store was state-owned (it is). "It's impossible," he said. "These things are too beautiful. Besides, there...
...exam on first aid and ski patrol regulations, and passed with the second highest score. This qualified him for the skiing test: Jim had to demonstrate every technique of skiing, from stem christie to parallel to snowplow on a very steep slope, and ski every kind of snow--packed, powder, ice and crud--at high speed. He passed the skiing test with a low score, but not too low. Of the 65 people to tried to join, Jim's total score placed...
Eric Klaussen finished 23rd on the packed powder of the slalom run and Allen Hale followed in 28th for the Crimson. Andy Demars led the Harvard cross country contingent with his effort...
...more advanced systems is a CEA process for converting garbage into a fine brown powder called Eco-Fuel II. Metals and other heavy materials are mechanically culled from the garbage (just about anything that is thrown away) before the remaining material, mostly cellulose, is treated with chemicals, then pulverized. That technique permits the fuel to be stored without decomposing. The powder can be burned more efficiently than raw garbage and can be used with oil, coal or natural gas. For example, a CEA plant in East Bridgewater. Mass., converts 1,200 tons of garbage a day into Eco-Fuel...