Word: steamingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...shortcoming in giving poses a direct threat to the Faculty's budget and as the Campaign started to lose steam this year the Faculty had to rework its budget...
...diameter will flood the ducts in less than 30 seconds with about half a million gallons of water. The water will be stored in two tanks. The 6,000° F heat produced by the shuttle will be tamed by the liquid, generating huge billows of steam from the ducts during and after the launch. At Cape Canaveral, the vents are lined with firebrick; at Vandenberg, they are made from approximately 130,000 cu. yds. of solid concrete. A special vacuuming process was applied to the concrete while it was setting. This sucked out air and moisture quickly, resulting...
South African divestment as an issue has run out of steam lately, and the relationship between Bok's answer and student reaction to the question goes a long way toward explaining why. If President Bok and the Corporation, the ruling body that oversees how Harvard banks its $2.6 billion endowment, have been hoping to make the issue die ever since the heated demonstrations of 1978 and 1979, they have found the right way to do it--by being honest...
MIDLAND. Conceived as a cooperative venture that would supply Michigan's Consumers Power Co. with electricity and a neighboring Dow Chemical plant with steam, the two-unit, 1,300-MW project on Michigan's Tittabawassee River was launched in 1969. It then carried a $267 million price tag. The problem-plagued development is currently nine years behind schedule and egregiously over budget. Company officials say that construction, now 85% complete, has al ready cost $3.4 billion...
...story of Cabinet appointments in the first three years of Reagan is a sorry one indeed. Following the perfectly reasonable rule of giving the President his men. Congress has been steam rolled into acquiescing in the creation of one of the least distinguished Cabinets in history, one fraught with incompetence and a degree of corruption that would have seen previous Presidents run out of office...