Word: boost
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...biggest TAPS problem would come from burying the pipeline in permafrost; no one really knows how the soil would behave. Oil would enter the pipe at a geothermal temperature of more than 100°; pumping and friction would boost that to 180°. As a result, critics charge, the hot oil might create a "thaw bulb" in the permafrost as deep as 50 ft. If the pipe broke, either by sagging into the mush or by being jolted by an earthquake, the aftermath would make the Santa Barbara spill look like a picnic. Critics also fear breaks at the pipe's lowest...
...Management and Budget (OMB), for example, it seemed clear that the awkward initials were invented to avoid the more logical name. Bureau of Management and Budget (BOMB). Military men seldom avoid such errors. The Army is especially prone to fatuous acronyms like BAMBI, which stands for Ballistic Missile Boost Intercept. Some civilian agencies are equally dense: ACHE (Alabama Commission on Higher Education), or something the Albuquerque payroll office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs calls Wage and Manpower Process Utilizing Machines, which tactlessly yields WAMPUM. From conservationists: FOE (Friends of the Earth) and ACNE (Alaskans Concerned for Neglected Environments...
...years engineers have toiled at the $3 billion California Water Plan (see map) and ignored critics who consider the project environmentally bankrupt. Last month the builders got a major boost when California voters approved an interest increase on $600 million worth of state bonds needed to continue the project. Now the backlash has begun...
...Book assumes that 1) the Bundeswehr budget will remain close to $5.5 billion annually for several years, 2) troop strength will stay at the current 460,000 level, and 3) the draft will continue for the moment. From there, the report envisions far-reaching ' changes, all designed to boost morale...
...whisky had to be distilled at no higher than 160 proof and had to mature in new charred casks in order to be considered legally "aged." If old casks were used, the whisky had to bear the label "Stored in used cooperage"-a line not likely to boost sales. By contrast, the light grain whisky used in Scotch is distilled at 190 proof. Scotch is also ripened in used barrels, which impart no charred flavor to the whisky's light body. But finally, in 1968, the distillers won federal approval to mature a new high-proof whisky in used...