Word: arid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demanding a bigger share. Intense lobbying in Congress by white-water rafters and others has delayed for more than a year full use of the $341 million New Melones Dam near Modesto; other environmentalists are stalling plans for a 43-mile canal that would supply more water for the arid south...
Aden and Marjorie Meinel, a husband-and-wife research team at the University of Arizona, got $50,000 to develop their idea of using tumbleweed, the huge spheroid plant that grows wild on arid lands in the Southwest, as a burnable fuel. After harvesting, the bush is ground to the consistency of coarse flour and then compacted into log shapes held together by its natural resins. The 7.5-lb. "tumblelogs" have a heating value equivalent to a similar amount of hardwood...
...Thais, who, along with other non-Communist Southeast Asian nations, are supporting the boycott. Jordan, which is sending a team to Moscow, was reportedly promised a visit by the Bolshoi Ballet. In South America and Lathi America, the Soviets have let it be known that free room, board arid round-trip Aeroflot charters are available for the asking. That offer was recently extended to African nations, some of which have already received Soviet athletic gear and coaching help to prepare for the Olympics...
...quad printer, which consists of four projectors. Each projector holds separate bits of film. In the asteroid scene, for example, one would show the zooming Falcon, another the model asteroids, a third would show the stars shining in the background, and a fourth such things as shadows, laser beams arid explosions. All four machines would then project their images through a prism, which would combine them into one seamless film. Models were carefully synchronized by computers, moreover, and scenes using effects of enormous complexity could be duplicated as many times as necessary...
Hostage in arid white Stillman, he didn't care at all. He rather liked it; the disease had consumed him, and his person would absorb it. He was one bloated gland. He would not relent...