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    ATOMIC POWER
    January 28, 1958 - Buchanan, NY

    The first privately-owned thorium-uranium atomic reactor to supply power began construction of Buchanan, N.Y. The Consolidated Edison Company's Indian Point 1 nuclear generating station was the first designed to utilize uranium-235 supplemented with thorium-232. It was designed by the Babcock and Wilcox Co., and built at a cost of $100 million on the site of a former amusement park. Its pressurized water reactor produced 275,000 kW of power for part of the New York metropolitan area. The Indian Point 1 operating license was dated 26 Mar 1962. It began generating power on 16 Sep 1962. It was shut down on 31 Oct 1974.because it lacked an emergency cooling system for the reactor core.

    STREET GAS LIGHTS
    January 28, 1807 - London's Pall Mall

    London's Pall Mall became the first street of any city to be illuminated by gaslight. By 1823 nearly 40,000 lamps had been installed in 215 miles of London streets. Earlier, in 1804, Frederick Albert Windsor, a German entrepreneur, demonstrated and lectured on gas light at the Lyceum Theatre in London. His main interest in gas was for street lighting. Windsor acquired a house in Pall Mall, London and on 4 Jun 1807, the King's birthday, he exhibited lights and a gas-lit transparency along the walls. In 1809-10, Windsor established the first public gas company, The Gas Light and Coke Company, which remained in existence until the company was nationalized in 1948. Other British cities followed London's lead, and installed gas street lamps. For example, Glasgow, Scotland, lit their first on 5 Sep 1818.

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The article focuses on Microsoft Office Word developed by Microsoft Ltd. It also covers the history of development, highlights its importance in everyday use as well as introduces the 2010 version.

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The speedily growing competition and advanced IT technologies have made marketers pay attention to efficiency and proficiency of all work processes. As a result, there have been introduced diverse programmes to optimize companies' work. Microsoft Word is one of the most widely used file formats. Microsoft Word is a word processing application designed for creation of documents, for instance resumes, newsletters, fax cover sheets, audit reports, legal documents, brochures, instruction manuals and more.

Microsoft Word is frequently deployed by companies, community agencies, and can be found in most schools and colleges. Students deploy it daily and business people use it for creating office documents. The Word was introduced by Microsoft Ltd. It was invented under the name Multi-Tool Word. The first addition was launchedin the 1980s. Since that time, there have been developed several other versions, including the latest version that appeared in 2008. The next addition of Word is thought to be introduced in the coming 2010. It will include many new features common to other programmes in the Office 2010. The 2010 version will have new WordArt styles and effects supplanting the old ones.

Although Word is a constituent of the Microsoft Office system, it is also sold as a standalone software package and included in Microsoft Works Suite. Beginning with the 2003 version, the branding was altered to emphasise Word's identity as a constituent within the Office Suite. Microsoft Ltd. Renamed Microsoft Word into Microsoft Office Word.
The application allows users to type, format and modify text to be printed out or viewed electronically. The Word Format is a low-cost word processing program. The application offers a large number of tools and features, and many users are familiar and comfortable with its Microsoft toolbars.

Microsoft Word offers tools to format fonts, add clipart, add page numbers, and create tables and headers. Word's file formats are denoted either by a. doc or. docx file extension. The newer ".docx" extension denotes the Office Open XML international standard for Office documents and is deployed by Word 2007 for Windows, Word 2008 for the Macintosh.

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