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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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 can cut fuel consumption by an average 19% annually. Several manufacturers produce the device; one is the Flair Manufacturing Corp., whose product costs from $200 to $400 installed...
...search that produced such startling "results began routinely enough when investigators of the New Mexico Organized Crime Strike Force, a special state investigative unit, started looking into underworld activities. The allegations that developed were both dismaying and frightening. They involved a college basketball scandal, which was bad enough, but last week TIME learned that the agents also discovered that gamblers had used a computer to do their bookkeeping-and that the computer was owned by Sandia Laboratories, a supposedly supersecret contractor that makes nuclear weapons...
...this day, at least, the All-American unit prevailed, thanks to Cougar Pat Malloy's hat trick--the last third of which came with 3:41 remaining to kill a ferocious, swarming Clemson rally...
Tenants complained yesterday that workmen worked on lighting and wiring in Apartment 1 in the 16-unit building. When the ordinance, which faces a court test later this winter, went into effect, a tenant lived in the room, another tenant, Bernice Rogowitz, said yesterday...
Mark Fusco, who not only played awesome hockey on penalties, but starred during the five or so minutes the teams played at full strength, credits practice with bringing the penalty-killing unit around. "We finally did what we were told to do in practice," Fusco said with a grin after the game. "We were just more intense...