Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...developed to the point where huge solar funaces can be used to provide electricity for a large city. The same is true for wind power, but individual buildings can be heated and electrified by the kinds of solar and wind installation operating now in small numbers from New York to Los Angeles. However, one suspects that the thought of a country full of buildings with their own windmills and solar panels--creating electricity that the electric companies cannot meter--receives a very cool reception in company boardrooms. People who actually have installed such devices have been hassled by power companies...
...chilled opening day crowd gave Red Sox manager Don Zimmer a round of boos when he was introduced, and some of their lustiest cheers were saved for the scoreboard operator who posted the results of the Yankees-Brewers dogfight in New York: Brewers 5, Pinstripes (led by Ron Guidry...
...York City has staggered and stumbled but somehow maintained a precarious balance in the four officials years of its fiscal crisis. Following the intricate, day-to-day, financial derring-do that allowed the city to stay marginally solvent has presented formidable problems for even the most dedicated newspaper reader, but understanding what the crisis has really meant has been most impossible. The shouts of the city, the unions, the banks and the public have drowned out all but the most superficial explanations of what happened, and, more importantly...
...fact, the media coverage in the early 1970s was sparked, not so much by the Sahelian famine along the southern rim of the Sahara, as by a huge purchase of U.S. grain by Russia. As Nick Eberstadt of Harvard's Center for Population Studies noted in the New York Review of Books, Feb. 19, 1976, "India could never have made this kind of purchase: it would have cost 3 per cent of its gross national product, almost 25 per cent of its annual government revenue...
...York Times does foresee a slight adjustment problem for its readers because of its decision to switch to the Pinyin system. Theodore Shabad, editor of the Foreign News Desk of The Times, said yesterday...