Word: towers
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Through the first stages of the program's implementation, Malek's name continued to appear on responsiveness up-dates to Haldeman. In one, he authored a special favor arranged for Sen. John Tower (D-Tex.), who was then pumping Texas oil money into the Nixon campaign...
American Electric Power, a big utility holding company that also owns coal mines, has built tremendous smokestacks that tower 1,000 ft. over some of its power plants. When noxious sulfur dioxides are discharged at that altitude, the gases become so mixed with clean air that after they finally descend to the level at which people breathe, the sulfur is too diluted to be harmful. Sulfur can also be removed from coal smoke by special chemical catalysts called "scrubbers" before the smoke goes up the stack. Trouble is, the scrubbers are expensive-the Tennessee Valley Authority is spending $50 million...
Simultaneous translation keeps the audience in the picture and, for a few minutes, the show has interesting promise. Very shortly, however, it becomes clear that Playwright Horovitz has only one sort of joke in mind-a set of variations on the old Tower of Babel gag -and that Director Edward Berkeley can think of only one way to play it -stridently...
Sociobiology's most prominent critics earned my respect during the late sixties for their rejection of an ideology that saw Vietnam as a moral war and Harvard as an Ivory Tower. Harvard is no more an Ivory Tower today, but in attacking E.O. Wilson, the critics now seem to be fabricating a reactionary, not fighting a real...
...response, Gulfs board convened for a marathon session that in many ways had elements of a two-act courtroom drama. Act I opened on a Monday afternoon. Twelve of the 14 directors gathered in the walnut-paneled board room on the 31st floor in Gulfs headquarters tower in Pittsburgh...