Word: conservee
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To conserve electricity one afternoon, the subway system sidelined one-third of its trains and ran the rest at a top speed of 18 m.p.h., less than half the normal maximum. Perspiring passengers tolerated the experience, muttering remarks like, "So at this speed, why the hell doesn't Con...
To conserve cash, Cornfeld's aides for weeks have been slashing at I.O.S.'s legendary overhead. Before his resignation, Cornfeld had stopped drawing his $150,000 salary. Hundreds of executives and employees have been fired with two months' notice and given $2,000 to get back home...
With its normal heat-producing systems shut off to conserve electricity, the Odyssey's temperature dropped to nearly 40°. Had it continued to fall, the command module's chemical propellants might have thickened to the point where control thrusters would no longer have been able to perform the critical re...
Last week, for example, Control Data Corp. of Minneapolis announced that it had suffered "substantial" losses in computer operations in the first quarter, and would lay off an unspecified number of workers throughout the nation. The company specializes in making very large computers, sold chiefly to the Pentagon and universities...
The astronauts immediately shut off the third power cell to conserve energy, but reported difficulty controlling the craft which periodically fell into a pitch and roll, hampering communication with Mission Control in Houston.