Word: venting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wood stoves are not the only energy-and money-saving gadgets for the home. From Casablanca-style ceiling fans to recently developed vent dampers and superefficient furnaces, Americans are turning to technologies old and new to scrimp and save on precious energy...
...Vent dampers. Before a furnace or boiler can heat a house, it first must heat itself. Only after the inside temperature climbs to about 130° F does the furnace begin transferring warmth. Yet whenever the system shuts off, much of the accumulated heat within the furnace escapes up the flue. The vent damper is an electrically operated plate that blocks the flue during an oil-or gas-burning furnace's off cycle, thus retaining the heat. The plate then rotates to an open position when the unit trips on again. Department of Energy studies show that dampers...
Nearly as controversial as the sexual activity are the psychodrama sessions conducted at the ranch. A man broke a hand while beating on a rug-covered log to vent his anger. One woman received a black eye and a dislocated jaw after being hit in the face, and a month ago, another suffered head injuries in a fall...
Still, employees do vent their grievances. At the Kennedy School of Government last month, an informal committee of faculty and staff members persuaded the dean to create the post of personnel officer. Some staff members had been complaining that the open working spaces were often too noisy or overrun with visitors, and that they had trouble working when students and guests lounged on their desks to hold conversations. Others had said the unavailability of supplies was exasperating...
...overnight, Carter has begun sounding remarkably upbeat. At first it seemed the President hoped that by tinkering a bit with the American energy machine and by lessening the widespread tendency toward panic buying, he could shorten the lines at the pumps in California and vent some of the political pressure...