Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...complicated to operate and obsolete before it can come into general use. His solution avoids the naive polemics and wishful thinking regarding Soviet intentions of the disarmament lobby, and emphasizes instead smaller, less expensive weaponry. Drawing on examples like the army's success with the old M-60 tank and the unreliability of its high-tech successor, the extravagantly costly M-1, and on the strategic folly of basing the country's naval defense on 13 huge and vulnerable aircraft carriers. Hart's criticism has become a focal point in the sea of criticism of the military...
...devoted to "local color"--people staring off into the sea, or making idle chitchat. Early on, Doc discourses for a full six minutes about the habits of some octupi he has found in the surf. They look lovely with their frothy tendrils waving delicately in Doc's fish tank, but they don't do much to advance the plot. Then again, the most poignant moment in the whole film takes place when Doc returns to his laboratory to find his equipment smashed after a drunken brawl and the octupi draped, quite dead, about the walls...
David Steininger, 33, a graduate of Purdue University, is currently a project manager with Palo Alto's Electric Power Research Institute, an energy think tank. Says he: "I want to make my own mark and do something that has a lot more challenge. If you can't win a Nobel Prize, the next best thing is to start your own company." Steininger is thinking about forming a firm that will develop new oil-recovery technology...
...steam generator ruptured, contaminating water in the normally nonradioactive secondary loop. The leak also raised the pressure in the secondary loop, triggering a safety valve, which vented the now radioactive steam into the atmosphere. At the same time, slightly radioactive water from the secondary loop flowed into a holding tank in the plant's sealed containment building. When the tank filled, a worker opened a relief valve; it stuck and could not be closed until 1,690 gal. had spilled onto the containment-building floor. Some 100 workers were evacuated...
...sales declined 7%, in part because it had promised to cut prices if an agreement was reached. The automakers' production plans for this month indicate that it may be the worst February for sales since 1961. Financially troubled Chrysler is reportedly already trying to sell its profitable tank division for about $300 million to General Dynamics...