Word: steams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Barge and port facilities are also insufficient. The export demand for steam coal in Europe increased by nearly 100% last year, yet buyers are unhappy about the delays in delivery. U.S. piers have little storage capacity, so that railroad cars stocked with the black stuff wait weeks to be unloaded. Port channels are neither large nor deep enough to handle the traffic. Through most of the summer there were about 50 colliers at anchor on any given day at Hampton Roads, Va., the largest coal port on the East Coast...
That vitality is there, written across the canvas with enormous chromatic zest, in William Glackens' Breezy Day, Tugboats, New York Harbor, circa 1910. But in Glackens' cheerfully slathered impasto, the sky streaked with cat's paws of pink and the puffs of whistle steam stitched across the fat, oily pelt of the sea, an other kind of sensibility is present. It is very like the world of the French Fauve painters Derain and Vlaminck. The gap between Paris and New York has narrowed to less than a decade, and American modernism is about to begin in earnest...
...most Israelis the bill was a way of letting off steam, a shaking of the fist at what they regard as a frontal attack on their right to the city of Jerusalem as the focus of both their nation and their faith. What took place in the Knesset was a clash between the demands of rational diplomacy and the inner needs of national identity. The nationalist needs prevailed...
Community opposition and a series of DEQE rulings against Harvard have delayed full operation of the power plant, which is designed to provide steam, chilled water and electricity to 13 institutions in Harvard's Medical Area...
...marvelous slugfest it was. Duran swarmed all over the champion, landing solid rights and bottling Leonard up against the ropes. Leonard flurried out of clinches and boldly traded punches at center ring. In the cool night air of Montreal's Olympic Stadium, steam began to rise from the fighters' backs. At the end of 15 unrelenting rounds, Duran had a unanimous decision, his 70th victory in 71 professional fights, and a paycheck estimated at $1.65 million. The personable Leonard, who won an Olympic gold medal in Montreal four years ago, suffered his first loss in 28 professional fights...