Word: weather
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than the biggest existing photovoltaic system. Up to now, such systems have generally been confined to remote and inaccessible locations where the costs of providing conventional power are prohibitive. For example, in California solar cells generate energy for Coast Guard buoys, rural water pumps, VHF telecommunications relay towers, automatic weather stations and even an Air Force radar station. In addition, Kansas oil wells use solar electricity to inhibit the rusting of metal; a remote Arizona Indian reservation gets its power from cells, and even the Saudi Arabian government plans to line its Jidda-Riyadh highway with 400 solar-powered emergency...
...members, notes that the high cost of living would almost prevent a long walkout. Said he: "We can no longer strike over 50 for weeks on end." But if there is a strike, which company would be the target? Union representatives believe that Chrysler is too weak financially to weather a major stoppage. Ford was the target of the last strike, which lasted 28 days in 1976. So it might be General Motors' turn to take the heat...
...shifting fortunes of the Harvard baseball team changed as dramatically as the weather did Saturday, as the Crimson batsmen split a crucial doubleheader with Brown at Soldier's field, losing the first game, 7-4, and coming back to win the nightcap...
...confrontation was a militant follow-up to a mass rally at the weapons plant. On Saturday, more than 10,000 demonstrators, three times more than the organizers expected, assembled in damp, chilly weather to sing, hear speeches, and demand that the plant be shut down or converted to non-military...
...only clear thing about Monday's boycott, it seems, was the weather...