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...from its Mediterranean and Pacific fleets, the U.S. Navy has stationed two nuclear-armed aircraft carrier groups in the Indian Ocean and a five-vessel task force in the area of the gulf itself. In March the Pentagon announced the creation of the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force, a reservoir of more than 200,000 troops from which the President could draw an instant expeditionary force...
...gave it ample power to enforce stiff antipollution standards. He signed smog control laws more stringent than federal requirements. His rigid water pollution controls angered leaders of industry. He set aside an additional 145,000 acres of park lands, including 41 miles of expensive ocean front. He blocked a reservoir that would have submerged the ancestral burial grounds of several Indian tribes. On balance, even liberal groups like Americans for Democratic Action were not displeased with most of Governor Reagan's policies. Says Shirley Wechsler of Los Angeles, national vice president of A.D.A.: "We got a better hearing from...
Elvis has a deeper reservoir of hatred and bitterness than anyone in popular music, or even the Viet Cong, driving him, they say, to compose madly into the night, compressing his rage into song after song, until this: music with a pulse sustained by passion and fear, energy driven by emotion, not (hello Mick Jagger) cocaine. And the tunes deliver. The glory of Get Happy!! is that Elvis has composed 18 fresh, interesting, accessible but not uncomplicated melodies, and has, with true artistry, wedded their substance perfectly to their sound. It may be his best album. Certainly, it surpasses...
Enter the subterranean reservoir, as well as similar experiments at a South Dakota gold mine, a Utah silver mine and a Minnesota iron mine. Based on the number of protons in the cavity's water (more than 10³³), Physicists John Vander Velde of the University of Michigan, Frederick Reines of the University of California at Irvine, and their colleagues figure that there should be about 200 decay "events" per year...
...house if most of the warmth wafts overhead: in a well-insulated room the air near the ceiling can be anywhere from 10° to 25° warmer than at ankle level. Ceiling fans can reduce heating costs sharply, from 25% to 35%, simply by swishing the over-head reservoir of warm air down to where the people are. Designs range from units with plain wooden blades to brass and even iron-scrollwork extravaganzas that recall the decor of turn-of-the-century ice cream parlors. Top-of-the-line ceiling fans are made by the Hunter Fan Co. retail...