Word: watts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Watt House: where the Prez-det lives...
...involves assembling a nine-mile-long solar-heat collector in space; once assembled, it can ride along in orbit beaming the sun's power back to earth. On a more mundane level, Boeing has a contract with the Energy Research and Development Administration to develop a 10 million-watt power plant using heliostats-mirror-like reflectors that would catch the sun's rays and reflect them to a central receiving tower where their heat would be used to drive a turbine...
Chamber Music and Dancing featuring Shann Jacobsen, piano; Wendy Holdaway, bassoon; Kathleen Watt, soprano. Pieces by Vivaldi, Mozart and Barber to be followed by waltz and other dances. Kirkland...
...There is no intermission, evidently a precaution against losing the entire audience at half tune," wrote New York Post Critic Douglas Watt. Said Clive Barnes of the New York Times: "At times you could imagine yourself watching a parody called Kung Fu Comes to Athens." Enough, said the show's producers, and closed the doors after one performance...
...aluminum-coated, plastic record, stamped from a master disc that has been etched by a laser beam, is covered with billions of microscopic pits. Variations in pit size encode the video and sound messages. For playback, a sharply focused beam from a low-power (one-thousandth of a watt) helium-neon laser scans the disc as it whirls around at 1,800 r.p.m. The laser beam flickers as it is reflected from the record's pocked surface, and the flickering is detected by a photosensitive cell, like that used in photographic exposure meters, which in turn converts it into...