Word: steams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Early on, it was decided to forgo an emergency furnace, and some Massachusetts legislators question the wisdom of that decision. (A similar 20-story office in Toronto has taken the timid approach, with a steam-heat backup.) But Site Architect Spiros Pantazi brushes off all fears...
...White House, once worried that the recovery would run out of steam by mid-1984, is now confident that it will last at least long enough to get Ronald Reagan reelected. "The economy is coming up roses right now," chortled a Reagan aide. "Eighty-four is safe, and most think that '85 will be safe. As the good times move forward, there is less and less fear of the bubble breaking, at least before November." In fact, the President's political strategists are eager to make an issue of the economy...
...Besides, the Administration wants to spend only $2.6 billion in fiscal year 1985, an almost negligible sum in the $250 billion annual defense budget, and all the money would be for research and development. Nonetheless, warns a prominent West Coast physicist, "when these projects get up a head of steam, they're almost impossible to stop...
...poor performance has prompted Defense Minister Carlos Eugenic Vides Casanova to shuffle his corps of colonels, but the troops suffer from battle fatigue as much as bad orders. Says a State Department analyst: "The army did not so much go back to their barracks as just run out of steam...
...addition, many clubs purchase steam and telephone lines from Harvard, in both cases at significant savings over market rates. The University generally sells these services only to direct affiliates...