Word: steams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...Union closed early Monday night, following a pipe burst in the basement. Although the dining hall opened on schedule yesterday, officials there said they were unsure of the cause and of whether it was a steam or water pipe...
...roommate of 20 years before. She discovers (if she did not already know) that Kate (Marsha Mason) is married to a man named Deeley (Anthony Hopkins), with whom Anna had some ambiguous contact. Anna has a taste for hot climates, hard angles and social dominance. Kate prefers the steam from her long baths, or a heavy rain to blur reality...