Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most common process, coal is heated under great pressure to 900° F. As the coal decomposes, it releases oil and gas. Another extraction method, which adds hydrogen to coal that is heated under pressure, will be tested at a small, experimental plant operated by several oil companies in Catlettsburg, Ky. It should be able to convert 600 tons of coal into 1,800 bbl. of oil a day. At a DOE-funded plant in Fort Lewis, Wash., Gulf Oil since 1974 has been testing yet another process called "solvent refined coal," which uses chemicals to remove impurities from...
...Camp David he complained that he had been losing his audience. Some 80 million people had watched his first fireside chat on energy in 1977, he recalled, but only 30 million had tuned in for his fourth, last April That was scarcely the trouble Sunday night. However unorthodox his method Carter had seized the nation's attention He and his aides knew he had taken a gigantic gamble. If he failed to capitalize on this chance to assert his leadership, he would not get many more...
...Rassias, 53, an actor turned scholar who pioneered the Dartmouth Intensive Language Model now used to teach languages in 58 U.S. schools. In regular courses for undergraduates, Rassias and his followers frequently teach by play acting, as well as by pats on the head for good students. "The method brings emotions into the classroom," explains the professor. "Unless you feel a new language emotionally, the words won't come out when you need them." For the transit police project whose $18,000 cost was paid by private foundations, Rassias based classroom exercises on subway situations: passengers asking for directions...
Because nearly 40% of all oil used in the nation goes for gasoline, the first and most important step is to brake gasoline demand. Rationing would seem to be the politically expedient method. A New York Times-CBS News poll in early June found that three out of five Americans would prefer rationing to shortages and skyrocketing prices. Yet any form of rationing would tend to be inequitable and a bureaucratic nightmare. Even during World War II, when the U.S. was united as never before or since, gasoline rationing was marked by corruption, favoritism and loopholes. Today, rationing would...
This is how it works. Even the best records available today are recorded by the analog method invented by Thomas Edison about a century ago. With analog, sound is reproduced by recording the vibrations made by the sound waves, which were collected by young Tom and his associates through a horn, and then directed to a needle pressed against a metal cylinder wrapped in tin foil. The sound waves caused the needle to vibrate and to trace a wavy groove on the soft surface of the cylinder. This is kindergarten stuff, even allowing for the introduction of magnetic tape...