Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boutilier is wise to rely on the players behind her. Shortstop Bernstein is a fine fielder who anchors a solid defense...
...solid waste converstion has come up against both financial and environmental obstacles in the current effort to innovate and expand into a viable, large-scale industry. The large plant size needed for efficient production creates a significant problem for cities attempting to find a renewable outlet for their garbage: experts have estimated that only 85 metropolitan areas can generate enough waste to make a garbage-power plant feasible...
Another conversion option, dense pellets derived from solid waste that can be fed into a furnace to substitute for coal, faces a different problem. The first electric plant designed to use this converted fuel encountered numerous technological and operating difficulties in its first month of operation...
Environmental experts also fear the possibility of dangerous emissions into the atmosphere from such conversion plants. The bottom-line expense of conversion and the accessory cost of correcting corrosion and emission problems make solid-waste disposal uneconomical when compared with the landfill alternative...
...might hope him to be the prophet of the short story's Second Coming, a blazing savior curing the lepers and breathing voltage into numb forms, we find that he's not quite what we were looking for. Instead, we must relegate him to the narrow ranks of the "solid" young performers who, while they are not yet the transcendent pace-setters, at least don't drop the torch. Pathetically, even this compromise is good news for the American short story...