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...utilities and industries, the zebra mussel represents one of the biggest maintenance challenges next to corrosion. Detroit Edison, for example, has spent $500,000 cleaning the critters from the cooling system of its Monroe power plant. "Our plant," says superintendent Sam Smolinski, "has turned into a zebra-mussel nursery. Frankly, we can't fathom things getting any worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Invasion of The Zebra Mussels | 1/21/1991 | See Source »

...paperback, but rather less thick. It uses the same DAT cassette (which is less than half the size of the traditional analog cassette), records up to two hours of digitized splendor and plays it all back with impeccable fidelity. It makes conventional analog tape sound by comparison like an Edison cylinder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Discs, Dat and D'Other | 1/14/1991 | See Source »

...have any Homers at our nuclear plant," said David Barron, a spokesperson for San Onofre's owner, Southern California Edison, who accompanied the producers and writers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: `Simpsons' Spurs Ire of Nuclear Industry | 12/6/1990 | See Source »

...really knows how to communicate with people and make them understand the tradition," says Hargrove, whose Diamond in the Rough album has won high praise from jazz critics. Marsalis considers such proselytizing part of his legacy: "I'm just passing on the stuff that people like ((Harry)) 'Sweets' Edison, Art Blakey, Max Roach and Elvin Jones told me. I mean, I'm acting on a mandate from them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wynton Marsalis: Horns of Plenty | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

...city was given 15 business days to review the bureau's 1990 preliminary figures. It did so by analyzing data from the city, Con Edison and the New York Telephone Co., as well as consulting surveys, atlases and aerial photographs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New York City to Fight Results of 1990 Census | 9/20/1990 | See Source »

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