Word: steams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Threatening force is most successful when its purpose is to bolster existing governments. In backing the Nationalist government on Taiwan, for example, the U.S. has frequently ordered the Seventh Fleet to steam up and down the Strait of Taiwan near the Chinese mainland and has alerted Air Force bombers based in Japan and Taiwan. In 1959 Cuban-backed insurgents who had landed in Panama to overthrow the government were intimidated into retreating when a U.S. destroyer and minesweeper and patrol planes appeared off the Panamanian coast...
...VLCCs were initially built without any experience or any attempt to really understand what was involved in such sizes. There have been improvements, but the fundamental structural problem of the ships is unchanged. For example, a VLCC must be able to steam through a monsoon one week, subantarctic storms off the Cape of Good Hope the next, pass through the tropics, then the Biscay or North Atlantic coast gales. These subject its great length to severe hogging and sagging, with its broad decks constantly subjected to the weight of tremendous quantities of sea water because of the low freeboard...
...Robert E. Kaufman, associate dean for finance and administration, said yesterday that with the colder winter temperatures and rising cost of fuel, he would not be surprised to see an increase in steam spending of between 15 and 20 per cent, adding that this would result in additional dormitory costs of roughly $50 per student...
Vacha predicted that the University steam spending will run approximately 5 to 7 per cent over last year if the average increase in "degree days" remain constant throughout the year...
Vacha said the cost of heating the University would have been $600,000 more, if the same number of degree days had occured last year, citing the increasing success of cost saving measures the University has taken in recent years, including the installation of storm windows and automatic steam valve controls...