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...what about these 1975 kinds of numbers we talked about? How are we going to get down there? We in General Motors have taken two approaches to that. One is a change of power plant-go to a gas turbine, steam engine, electric car, sterling engine, or what not. Another approach is what can we continue to do with the gas engine.... We might change the kind of fuel we are using and go to a gaseous fuel-liquefied petroleum (LPG) or compressed natural gas-these have been proposed with a fair amount of notoriety. The engine would be quite...
...have also considered alternate power plants, including fuel injection, stratified charge, gas turbines, the diesel. Wenkel engine, free piston, electric, battery, steam car, and so on. And in most of those instances we built...
...Birmingham and Sheffield, was an early center of industrialization, with an excitement all its own. Even as a child, Wright was fascinated by things mechanical. He made models of machines, clocks and guns, a tiny spinning wheel and a toy peep show. James Watt, the perfecter of the steam engine, John Wilkinson, the iron manufacturer who developed the cast-iron bridge, Sir Richard Arkwright, the wealthy cotton manufacturer who invented the spinning jenny, and Josiah Wedgwood, whose name is still synonymous with fine pottery, all lived near...
...hotels and graduate of the world's second most prestigious business school, when Sam Bollo, sitting at the head of the table nude but for a medallion on his furry breast and a feather in his black hair, when Sam Bollo had lifted the lid from the pumpkin and steam had escaped, he ladled up first off, with the other pungent insides already named, a whole soggy box of Crackerjacks...
...December and January rose at a startling annual rate of 7.2%. Members of the Board of Economists, however, are confident that the rate of price increases will soon begin to slow. They insist that the "pause" they foresee, whether or not it qualifies as a recession, will remove inflationary steam from the economy. Says Okun: "The amount and magnitude and duration of the current slowdown will begin to affect the price and wage curves in the near future-not dramatically at first, not consistently, but will affect them. If they do not, I do not know what we are going...