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Word: station (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feel we have the God-given right to station thousands of troops and sophisticated armaments in countries surrounding the Soviet Union and to maintain a naval base in Cuba, but we now feel threatened by a few Soviet troops in Cuba. What arrogance! What hypocrisy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 8, 1979 | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...million houses, apartments and mobile homes-more than one-fifth of the U.S.'s housing-that use oil heat are getting their first big fuel deliveries. They are discovering with a dismaying jolt that the great '79 fuel crunch has moved from the gas station to the furnace room. Since January the average price of heating oil has jumped from less than 56? per gal. to more than 80?, an increase well in excess of 40%. The country's total heating-oil bill, about $10 billion last year, will rise by $4.3 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Those Fear-of-Freezing Blues | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...about $3 million a year. Edison, which has no desire to lose such business to MATEP, also holds the final trump. It's the only company that can provide backup for Harvard, but to do so, it must invest $10 or $15 million in an essential step-down station. Edison spokesmen smugly tell you that if MATEP wants to buy backup power for 20,000 of the plant's 30,000 kilowatts, it will cost about $1 million a year. "If that's the case," says one, "you might as well forget the whole thing...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Do the MATEP | 10/6/1979 | See Source »

...fact, chances are that more people know Scheper the Broadcaster than Scheper the Center. He's the voice of Harvard basketball for WHRB and Marc Sobil, the station's sports director, says "everyone knows he's our best sports-caster...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Dave Scheper: The Center of Attraction | 10/4/1979 | See Source »

...didn't work. A few SDS people, suspecting such a ploy, had stayed behind when the decoy car attempted to pull out. When McNamara was hustled toward the Mill St. gate and a waiting Harvard police station wagon, the students refused to budge. The crowd gathered around, a shouting match ensued, and police hustled McNamara over to Leverett House. He eventually left the scene via the underground tunnel system, surfacing at Kirkland House. The incident left both the Institute and the University shell-shocked. "I'm amazed that students at Harvard College would use tactics like that," commented John...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: A Night at the Forum | 10/3/1979 | See Source »

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