Word: steams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their stay. Youths slept in the sun on air mattresses, crawled at night into tents of orange, green, yellow and blue canvas. The more spiritual-minded jammed into an Indian meditation tent. Attitudes toward the music ban varied. "When you alienate so many people, the revolution just picks up steam," said Pat Coons, 23, a camper from Connecticut. Waving to friends on a ski T-bar, a California youth expressed the dominant mood: "This whole thing is playing it lazy-it's a place to pass a smooth couple of days." Nevertheless, in its final days, the festival turned...
...years since Thomas Alva Edison inaugurated the nation's first steam-electric power station in lower Manhattan, the U.S. has become extraordinarily dependent on electricity. Americans now take for granted the busy computers that click in offices, the lights that blaze all night in poultry farms, the sensitive machines that monitor patients in hospitals. The average U.S. household contains 16 electrical appliances. But the day may come when people casually flip a switch or lift a receiver-and nothing will happen...
...compound the problem, equipment manufacturers were held up by strikes and shortages of skilled labor. When the Federal Power Commission surveyed 85 large steam-generating units installed in 1966-68, it found that 55 had been delayed for one reason or another. As a result, lead time for getting a new fossil-fuel plant on the line has been lengthened from four to six years. Nuclear plants are now expected to take seven rather than five years...
...James Steam, 24, fought for three years as a Marine in Viet Nam. "I didn't fight for the flag," he says. "I fought for the freedom we were supposedly there to protect. When I come back and try to exercise that freedom, they say you don't have the right." He wears a flag shirt anyway...
...serious, but some qualifications are necessary. The economic picture appears bleaker than it really is because the market tends to overreact. It jumps extravagantly when the economy is strong, plunges precipitously when business weakens (and sometimes when it does not). Moreover, the economy has not suddenly run out of steam because of some inexplicable decline of consumer demand. Most of the drops in profits and jobs are the result of a deliberate, managed slowdown...