Word: steams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Between the calorie counting and aerobic breathing, the yoga and the yogurt, the rolfing and the rope jumping, exercised Americans will admire their improved chassis in 300 million sq. ft. of new mirrors. The reflections of these new Adams and Eves glowing radiantly through the steam rising from the hot tubs are provocative indeed. They portend even more than they posture...
Even the current proportion may not be maintained for long. This month the Power Authority of the State of New York has shut down an operating reactor at Indian Point because of cracking and leakage in the plumbing of its steam generator; the cities of Austin and San Antonio have developed severe doubts about a big reactor abuilding in Texas; and a Washington State utility combine is faced with -'an uncontrollable termination"-that is, complete cancellation-of two reactors under construction. Surveying the ballooning cost of building nuclear plants, Merrill Lynch, the giant investment firm, coldly suggested in March...
...Full Steam Ahead...
...learn to produce as much food in the next 40 years as we have in the past 11,000." So says Corn Geneticist Ronald Phillips of the University of Minnesota. Can it be done, especially since the so-called Green Revolution has just about run out of steam? The answer may lie in the fact that a second Green Revolution, powered by the wonders of genetic engineering, has been gathering impetus for some time and now seems within reach...
...unusual feature of the Head is its staggered start. The boats do not square off head-to-head; they each race against the clock. The only classic "confrontations" you see come when one shell picks up enough steam to overtake another...