Word: tags
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MIDLAND. Conceived as a cooperative venture that would supply Michigan's Consumers Power Co. with electricity and a neighboring Dow Chemical plant with steam, the two-unit, 1,300-MW project on Michigan's Tittabawassee River was launched in 1969. It then carried a $267 million price tag. The problem-plagued development is currently nine years behind schedule and egregiously over budget. Company officials say that construction, now 85% complete, has al ready cost $3.4 billion...
...Conway, the senior vice president of Georgia Power. "They are just too expensive for a company like us to construct any more." Georgia Power's Plant Vogtle, a two-unit facility now more than 50% complete, is expected to come on line at ten times its original price tag of $660 million. For many utilities, nuclear plants are far too costly. The huge, quasi-governmental Tennessee Valley Authority made a commitment in the 1960s to generate most of its electricity by nuclear power...
...deck cage. The astronauts will operate the shuttle's sinewy remote-controlled arm, using it to lift out into space a German-built platform known as SPAS (for Shuttle Pallet Satellite), which is loaded with scientific instruments. More significant, they are slated for a two-day game of tag with a 6½-ft.-diameter Mylar balloon. As the sphere drifts as far as 120 miles away, the crew will use radar and optical tracking to find their way back to it. The maneuvers are a rehearsal for April's retrieval of Solar...
...Tate is hardly the only one on the Crimson squad who seems to find her best game in the tournament. After all, over the past three seasons the squad has picked up the tag of "February's team." Fresh from exams, their skills peaking after a grueling early-season campaign, the pieces fall into place come the second month...
...differ from Lisa in one important way: popularity. While Lisa was touted last year as a technological marvel, it has been a market dud. The company hoped to sell 50,000 in 1983, but sold fewer than 20,000. The main criticism of Lisa was its $10,000 price tag...