Word: stormfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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South of the Mason-Dixon line, the onslaught of winter was no less vicious. A sleet storm came roaring out of Texas at midweek. In such cities as Birmingham and Memphis, the storm disrupted traffic and closed down schools and businesses. In Atlanta, where there are still fresh memories of a 1973 ice storm that downed trees and knocked out power lines for a week, the ominous reports emerging from Alabama and Tennessee sent downtown workers hurrying home early...
...sounds and signals were only too familiar: scare headlines screaming from the Italian newspapers, angry demonstrators on the march, and the spectacle of grim-faced political leaders huddling long into the night. Yet the storm gathering force last week in Italy was more ominous than any of the change-of-government crises that have preceded it-on the average of one every ten months since 1946. Amid the worst violence to erupt in the country in five years, the 18-month-old minority government of Premier Giulio Andreotti, faltering for weeks, slid toward all but certain collapse. Andreotti was expected...
...winter storm watch is in effect today, with snow changing to rain likely. The National Weather Service predicted a 100 per cent chance of precipitation, accompanied by 40 mph winds...
...report sponsored by the Office of Administrative Studies, other aids in energy conservation, including the installment of storm windows in dormitories during the last few years, Christmas vacation policies and heightened general energy consciousness, along with PEP and Delta automation, were explored for cost effectiveness...
...report found the Delta 2500 computer was responsible for an 18 per cent annual reduction in steam consumption during fiscal 1976. "General consciousness," as the energy people call it, was responsible for a 20 per cent reduction in steam consumption, while storm windows and Christmas vacation efforts led to cut downs of 19 and 17 per cent each, respectively...