Word: steams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reactor components were slackly written, lacking even technical specifications. Said Investigator A. Ernest Fitzgerald of one contractor's agreements: "I think it was very decent of Westinghouse to do any work, because it is not clear they have to do anything at all under these contracts." A steam generator priced at $5 million in 1975 actually cost the Government $71 million. The report found evidence of both bribery and fraud by some contractors. A consortium of 753 private utilities agreed in 1973 to put up more than a third of the capital for Clinch River. Thanks to the cost...
...fogs-they were, of all unlikely things, political images: fat Ku Kluxers riding around in cars, nooses, stubbled faces in claustrophobic, smoke-filled rooms. For several years before that, not much had been seen of Guston's work; he was thought to have run out of steam, and so his new work was treated as a gesture of desperation, an aesthete's efforts to look like a stumblebum. If anyone had suggested in those days that the figurative Gustons would exert a pervasive influence on American art ten years later, the idea would have seemed incredible...
...rush to beat inflation by buying such tangible goods as fine art, jewelry and even old art nouveau advertising posters, which picked up steam about two years ago when inflation began roaring ever higher, now appears to be slowing...
...Bureau of Mines, which has statutory responsibility for mine fires and other problems resulting from bad mining practices, began the process of buying out 27 families whose homes lie within the "impact area" most threatened by escaping gases and steam, and moving them elsewhere. But the bureau has yet to take any steps to locate the fire and excavate in order to reach it, a process that would cost $80 million, or to relocate the more than 100 homes that could be affected if it did excavate...
...keeps an ear tuned to the monitor in her home, shares that anxiety. Jurgill's daughter Katrina, 2, was sick much of last winter. Her second child is due in mid-July. "The Government says we're safe," she remarks, "but it's hard to see steam coming out of the ground on both sides and believe that...