Word: units
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite their determination to submit their applications early, the process for assigning the Harvard housing does not guarantee that even those high on the list will receive housing. The chance of any applicant receiving housing depends on the type and availability of the desired unit, Kossan said...
Defnseman Jim Johnson, filling in on an extra-man unit that normally boats five skaters with at least 58 points got his first powers play goal of the year, when Watson fed the senior in the right wing circle from behind...
...that a pencil remains the tool of choice for balancing the checkbook and updating the grocery list. Home-computer sales, which surged from 390,000 machines in 1981 to 4.8 million in 1983, declined by 6%, to 4.5 million, last year. Says John Pope of IBM's personal-computer unit: "Our expectations were overly optimistic. The home market did not expand to the degree that IBM, and others, thought it would...
...will still serve only as a transition to other, less vulnerable weapons. A presidential commission headed by retired Air Force Lieut. General Brent Scowcroft, which reluctantly recommended basing the MX in Minuteman silos for the near future, also concluded that the U.S. should begin immediately building a 1,000-unit force of single-headed Midgetman missiles, which will be mobile--and less easily targetable...
Even then, tragedy might have been averted were it not for an extraordinary series of mishaps and oversights. A refrigeration unit that might have kept temperatures in the tank at a manageable level had broken down more than five months earlier and never been repaired. A temperature alarm, which would have alerted workers to the trouble, had not been properly set. A flare tower that could have destroyed some of the escaping gas was out of commission. And a "scrubber," designed to neutralize toxic vapors, was not turned on until after the reaction had raced out of control...