Word: steams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...college kids for the first time began to center their lives around the movies as an art form. Almost paradoxically, movies in Cambridge began to hit their peak at about the same time as student radicalism. Passive movie going merged with active protest. The student movement was gaining steam at the same time that the entrepreneurs who started the Orson Welles were figuring that the Cambridge movie public was large enough to support two new theaters...
...gravelly voice on the platform speaker rasps out, "Southern Crescent, Amtrack train for New York, arriving from Washington, D.C. and points south, on Track 5. All aboard." In a rush the passengers grab their suitcases, shopping bags, and knapsacks and board the train. The engine starts up again and steam floats up to the steel rafters of the station. After a minute in a cramped tunnel, the train emerges into the early Sunday morning sunshine...
...Critics use the figure to cast doubt on the reliability of nuclear plants. AEC Chairman Dixy Lee Ray cites the same figure to show how tough regulatory practices are. Both have some justification. Nuclear plants have had more than their share of operating mishaps, ranging from breaks in steam pipes to discoveries of defective welding and corrosion of reactor parts. But all the troubles were caught and fixed in time to prevent any accident involving radioactivity...
...getting rid of controls, Congress and the Administration are making a risky bet that a record harvest this fall, and a potential drop in oil prices resulting from increased supplies will take much of the steam out of the present inflation. If they are wrong, the big loser will be the already price-burdened U.S. consumer...
...meanwhile gave Maguire the "full steam ahead" signal on its contract review--prompting Cambridge City Councilor Saundra Graham to wonder publicly just how thorough the investigation will...