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...changes. The sensors do not respond to every fluctuation, but when a computer calculates a sustained 15 degrees shift, it signals for a turn into the wind. The leading American manufacturer, U.S. Windpower of Livermore, Calif., has built machines with electronic components that act as a giant surge protector, keeping sudden bursts of energy produced by gusts from overpowering the turbine...
Frank said that many Americans are tired of America playing the role of "protector, banker and feeder of foreign nations...
...Russian Federation, Alexander Rutskoi, quietly informed U.S. Ambassador Robert Strauss about an early version of a speech that had been prepared for Boris Yeltsin to deliver last Monday, on the eve of Gorbachev's departure for Madrid. The draft declared the U.S.S.R. defunct and Yeltsin's government the protector of 25 million ethnic Russians in the outlying republics...
...experience as a state chief executive and his unmatched rhetorical skills ("Cuomo speaks poetry, while everyone else speaks prose," says Richard Nixon) guarantee that a Bush-Cuomo debate would be a bruising battle, in which the President could be rattled by the Governor's portrayal of him as a protector of the rich...
...base was the Lithuanian police academy until soldiers loyal to Moscow took it by force in January. Now the building looks like a command post in a war zone, and those who inhabit it view themselves as besieged defenders of the Soviet empire. In its unofficial role as armed protector of the republic's non-Lithuanian minorities, many of whom fear Baltic independence, the OMON unit has become a kind of partisan brigade determined to prevent Lithuania's secession at all costs. "We are drawn together by our attitude to the future of Lithuania and the Soviet Union," says Major...