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...Union closed early Monday night, following a pipe burst in the basement. Although the dining hall opened on schedule yesterday, officials there said they were unsure of the cause and of whether it was a steam or water pipe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burst Pipes Affect Lowell, Kirkland, Freshman Union | 1/25/1984 | See Source »

...roommate of 20 years before. She discovers (if she did not already know) that Kate (Marsha Mason) is married to a man named Deeley (Anthony Hopkins), with whom Anna had some ambiguous contact. Anna has a taste for hot climates, hard angles and social dominance. Kate prefers the steam from her long baths, or a heavy rain to blur reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Connections | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

Early on, it was decided to forgo an emergency furnace, and some Massachusetts legislators question the wisdom of that decision. (A similar 20-story office in Toronto has taken the timid approach, with a steam-heat backup.) But Site Architect Spiros Pantazi brushes off all fears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Keeping Warm, Boston Style | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

...Besides, the Administration wants to spend only $2.6 billion in fiscal year 1985, an almost negligible sum in the $250 billion annual defense budget, and all the money would be for research and development. Nonetheless, warns a prominent West Coast physicist, "when these projects get up a head of steam, they're almost impossible to stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Step Closer to Star Wars | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

...poor performance has prompted Defense Minister Carlos Eugenic Vides Casanova to shuffle his corps of colonels, but the troops suffer from battle fatigue as much as bad orders. Says a State Department analyst: "The army did not so much go back to their barracks as just run out of steam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America: Trouble on Two Fronts | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

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