Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Efficiency Expertise. Power companies often act as a spur to conservation by providing companies with expertise-often the only comprehensive knowledge available. A year ago the Northern Illinois Gas Co. near Chicago began a program aimed at its industrial customers. "They use the most energy, and they are the most wasteful," explains Bud Wulff, an engineer assigned full time to the project. As a result of testing for efficiency and recommending various economies, the utility has been able to effect 30% to 40% savings in gas usage at some firms...
...Blue Line is the baby of the system, a spur from downtown out to the Revere area, with only 12 stops of its own. The line has a suburban feel to it, because of its new stations with their shiny benches and photographic murals. For most college students, it serves as a link to the airport, ferrying people into the Green and Orange Lines...
WHAT? is Roman Polanski's shot at a scatterbrained, spur-of-the-moment comedy, a little like John Huston's Beat the Devil. A girl (Sydne Rome) stumbles into an Italian villa barely clothed and near collapse. Like Playboy's Little Annie Fanny, whom she resembles, the girl is promptly set upon by the entire household, which includes psychotics, perverts, lechers, gnomes, dikes and an assortment of servants who make it their business not to notice anything...
...offense came in for heavy criticism from some players--mostly for the missed shots. Coach Malin said that his men functioned well together as a team, but that the team must improve on play execution. Bryant said the team lacks a consistent offensive push, with points scored after spur-of-the-moment spots...
...course of negotiations between the Arabs and Israelis would be long and perilous. The international community could do at least two things to spur local peace efforts: stop the sale and delivery of military equipment to the Middle Eastern nations and initiate an effort to assist these countries in economic development...