Word: tanks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...begins on the road from Americus to Plains, though with nothing like the quantity or hideousness that is standard issue now for the edges of almost any town. I note the chaste welcome center on my left with only three cars in the lot, then the silos and water tank, and finally the nice row of brick stores that have easily endured their freight of souvenirs and the acid marinade of countless photographs to remain as anyone's icon of small-town America. They are not exactly an architecturally distinguished row, but their variety and fantasy of ornament...
...devices. A computer automatically shuts off all lights at 6 p.m. unless instructed to leave some on. Advanced sodium-vapor light fixtures focus illumination on desks instead of dispersing the glow throughout the room. This alone should cut electricity use for lighting by half. A 300,000-gal. underground tank stores water that is chilled overnight when power costs are lower; the water is then used in the air-conditioning system during the daytime. Jobs that require work at unusual hours will be concentrated in an adjoining three-story building so that the taller structure is not heated or cooled...
...Czechoslovakia in 1968 and Afghanistan last year, experts in Bonn outlined the following possible invasion scenario: the two Soviet divisions stationed in Poland would quickly try to secure strategic points, notably major airports, so that infantry and light artillery could be flown in as reinforcements. At the same time, tank forces and additional motorized infantry would move across the borders from the Soviet Union and East Germany. Soldiers from the satellites would be used sparingly, in case anti-Soviet feeling flared throughout the East bloc. East German troops would probably be withheld completely, since the Poles hate the Germans even...
...thermometers and lowers it into a tank of hot water (100° F to 145° F), then into a tank of cold water (40° F), then into a centrifuge that squeezes out even the tiniest bubbles. Working with two dozen different boxes, it performs its ritual three times on each box in the course of a 394-step program that takes 7½ min. A simple routine, but it used to occupy 13 employees, and now only one is necessary. Says Plant Manager M. James Dawes: "I tell our people we've got to become more productive...
...Beat Crazy, Joe Jackson. Here's an example of how a basically middle-of-the-road, modestly talented songwriter picked up on the martial atmosphere in his recording studio. None of Jackson's new songs actually depicts war scenes, but tank-treads grind throughout the album. From the title track...