Word: burner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ordinary coal-fired facility. "It's like building a giant Swiss watch," says David Freeman, a director of the Tennessee Valley Authority, which operates two atomic plants. Many nuclear construction crews tried to build these Swiss watches with little more than the skills needed to hammer together a coal burner. Delays and repairs have led to catastrophic cost overruns, which have plagued many plants completed in recent years as well as some of those currently under construction. Florida's new St. Lucie 2 facility, which was built and brought on line in six years for $1.4 billion, about four times...
...issue on the front burner...
Beathard, the livestock judge of the Washington Redskins, has been consulted. "Fryar is what we call a burner, unbelievable speed," he says. In fact, the Redskins did not credit the clocking provided by the school. "He runs a 4.28 forty [yards]," says Beathard with a chuckle. "That's our time." Plus he enjoys collisions. "Not to take anything away from Rozier," Beathard says, "but Fryar should be considered more of a prize in the National Football League, a game breaker. Not quite a burner, Rozier is an excellent back who breaks tackles and does a lot of good things...
...maintain your underdog snarl when you've just signed a movie contract worth $40 million. (This is a pose Pryor's sassy "godson," Eddie Murphy, avoided in his delirious HBO concert last month, the better to strut his glitter and gift for mimicry.) But even back-burner Pryor is hot enough. Savor the funny bits on herpes, abortion clinics, nuclear holocausts and men's-room etiquette. And tune in next year for The Pryor Next Time...
...keeping with this breadth, Starr, while retaining an interest in medical policy questions, is moving onto other research questions. One of the two main topics on the burner are general questions conceding the growth of information technology and the implications it has, for the organization of work...