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...Cogen" plants produce power by burning oil, natural gas or coal, translated into electricity or steam. The CSX Greenbrier project was designed to burn both oil and Otisca Fuel to produce electricity for Virginia Electric & Power, the local utility. Even if they don't get federal assistance, Shelor hopes to build the Greenbrier plant. Alternatively, he and Smith are discussing a deal that would use coal wastes to make Otisca Fuel as a direct substitute for No. 6 fuel oil. The prospect of making money the old-fashioned way, by earning it through the sale of cogenerated power...
Along Mt. Auburn Street, the "Gold Coast" dorms catered to the lifestyles of the children of the rich and famous. Claverly Hall, now annexed housing, and Randolph and Westmorely Halls, which later became part of Adams House, were the late-nineteenth century lap of luxury: spacious rooms, private baths, steam heat...
...plowman and his instrument were rooted in the American myth, a symbol of hard work, virtue and abundance that fed and freed most other Americans for pursuits beyond the farm. Plows of mounting complexity and size were hooked behind teams of oxen and horses and then to crude steam engines. In 1894 Nebraskan Sterling Morton, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, decreed that the great seal of the Department of Agriculture would no longer have a shock of wheat in the center; it would have a shock of corn -- and a plow...
When De Gennaro sets his mind tosomething--regardless of the consequences--it willprobably happen, Rogers says. "This is a guy whowasn't afraid to make a decision," he recalls,"and when he made it, it was full steam ahead...
...supplies. And because part of the direct-supervision model is to normalize the environment, space is reserved for recreation, specialty-group meetings such as Alcoholics Anonymous or drug-therapy sessions, and religious functions. Says Rufo: "We have to let people have time to study, pray and let off steam, which is why the dayroom is valuable...