Word: steams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...power; besides, it wasn't the first time a Harvard Shuttle has given out on me. I pulled the bus over to the shoulder. After deboarding, a junior counselor and I were looking at the bus. We thought it might have overheated; little wisps of what looked like steam were coming out of the hood. However, we didn't stand around to see what might happen, because we noticed something leaking from the bottom of the bus (we thought it was water). Returning to the rest of our group, who were several hundred yards down the highway behind...
...lousy idea," sniped the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association. "Unwise and unwarranted," said the American Petroleum Institute. What caused Detroit and the oil industry to blow off steam last week were two Government proposals that could help cut down smog. The rules, put forth by the Environmental Protection Agency, would impose new controls on gasoline content and require improved pollution-control equipment on autos. Acknowledging that the proposals are "controversial," EPA Administrator Lee Thomas said oil companies and automakers "are going to have to spend additional money...
...Though the operation has already been delayed for seven weeks, the Kuwaiti tankers are still undergoing a final U.S. Coast Guard inspection at several undisclosed foreign ports. According to congressional sources, the first reflagged Kuwaiti ship, accompanied initially by the carrier U.S.S. Constellation and then by naval warships, will steam from the United Arab Emirates port of Khor Fakkan on the Indian Ocean to the Kuwaiti port of Mina al Ahmadi, some 675 miles away. After refueling and loading up with oil, the vessel will return to Khor Fakkan. The trip will take about five days; three more convoys...
...nothing seems quite as perverse and inexplicable as the set itself. On one side, the stage has a large chain-linked fence; on the other is a floor grate that lets off steam or wind-swept orange rags meant to represent fire. In the middle stands a wall that seems to be covered with aluminum foil...
...family could not afford a baby-sitter, so after school the youngster did odd jobs for his mother at the local carpet- cleaning shop she managed. By the time he was ten years old, he was soliciting business over the phone. Five years later, in 1981, he bought some steam- cleaning equipment and set up shop in his family's garage. Unlike many entrepreneurs who give their companies names like AAAA Best, Minkow gave his firm a name that put it near the end of the telephone book. When the business boomed, he hired his parents, making his mother...