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Three years ago Bruce Collier, assistant to Dean Rosovsky, thought about the energy problems in William James Hall and came up with a similar plan of action. By turning off steam and electricity at night and on weekends, Collier says he saved 30 to 40 per cent on those bills. Nevertheless, William James still made it into the Big Four because of its ventilation system--one that Leahy hopes to abandon by next spring--which Collier refers to as "an absolute horror story...
SUDDENLY, without transition or explanation, two trails in the forest of The Great Santini meet, and the audience finds itself five miles above land in the cockpit of Meechum's airplane during a training run. The film has run out of steam on race relations, and so abruptly resumes its portrayal of the problems encountered by a warrior without a war. Meechum, reminding himself several times that he is the Great Santini, runs into engine trouble while he has departed from his flight plan to do some aerodynamic acrobatics, and he dies in the crash--ostensibly because he stays with...
Cogeneration: Taking one main power source, and by capturing excess steam and heat, producing more than one type of energy. In the case of MATEP, the diesel engines are the main power source, producing electricity, chilled water and steam...
...seeds in the bottle unearthed this year were planted, as usual, in soil sterilized by steam. But at first nothing happened. Had the century-old seeds finally expired? No. After several weeks the first seedling emerged; within five months 29 seeds had germinated. Six of the seedlings died. Of the survivors, 21 are moth mullein, one is another type of Verbascum and the last a variety of the Malva species that had not sprouted since...
...Doors is rooted both in a high school home-room taste for excessive behavior (one episode details how Morrison and a mistress frolicked in her blood, extracted with a dull razor and caught in a champagne glass) and in the insatiable adolescent craving for getting the older folks steamed. There is no steam in George Harrison's / Me Mine; most of the excess is in the price. Available by subscription, the book is hand-bound in fine leather, its pages gilded like some special presentation edition of the King James. It sells for ?148 ($355), a sum that could...