Word: steams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Harry A. Hawkes, director of engineering and utilities, Harvard uses "district heating," which delivers steam from the Blackstone Station power plant in Cambridge through tunnels and buried lines to multiple buildings on campus...
...down 7,000 ft. from the capital of Asmara to the seaport of Massawa. Workers trained by the grandfathers who built the railroad in the '30s lay reforged rails back toward Asmara; they have completed 26 miles in two years and cunningly restored the country's two 1938 Italian steam engines...
...megawatt power plant provides "total energy"--steam, electricity, and chilled water--to the Harvard Medical School, the Dental School, the School of Public Health and six affiliated hospitals. Only 20 percent of its output is used by Harvard schools...
...Such excess was more common in the ?80s, ?when Cap Weinberger was steam-shoveling cash into the defense industry,? says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. But even the 70 percent reduction in the defense budget since then hasn?t eliminated the problem. ?When you pay $76 for a screw, someone?s being screwed,? says Thompson, ?and it?s obviously the taxpayer...
...mercy of the fractious and often self-serving regional parties whose votes guarantee his majority. Vajpayee was prime minister for 13 days in 1996, and this time the pundits don?t give him more than a year. Just enough time for Sonia Gandhi to build up a head of steam at the helm of the Congress Party?s campaign...