Word: basin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pursuading the villagers to help them whenever possible, the Americans brought water down the side of a mountain from a spring, cleaned it out, laid plastic pipe and built a catch basin. The equipment, which cost a total of $500, was paid for by the Americans, who were later reimbursed by a St. Louis businessman, Jack Larner, who heard of their activities...
Another ticklish problem was what to do about the U.S.-owned International Petroleum Co., which has been operating the rich La Brea y Pariañs basin for 50 years under a series of contracts that many Peruvians consider unfair and illegal. Last year Belaúnde's government canceled the contracts amid leftist cries for an outright takeover. Belaúnde refused, and last week he was hammering out the final details of a new contract that will keep I.P.C. in Peru but give the government a greater share of profits...
...BAILEYS OF BALBOA (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). A new situation comedy about a poor family living on a houseboat in the luxury Balboa Yacht Basin-a kind of Beverly Hillbillies afloat-starring Paul Ford as Papa Bailey. Premi...
...morning calm with a roar of cranked-up motors and the whip-whip-whip of whirling rotors. In Quang Due province, the local American adviser, a Negro captain, jounces along a red-dust path in his familiar Jeep, packing a .45 on his hip and speaking Vietnamese with a Basin Street beat. In a sandbagged patrol base in Binh Duong province, a U.S. captain sprawls in a hammock, exhausted after a night's march, a carbine across his belly and a can of Schlitz in his hand. In cemeteries back home, many of his less-fortunate buddies rest underground...
Perhaps the most common of all kidney infections, especially in women and children, is pyelitis-inflammation of the collecting basin in the middle of the kidney, where urine accumulates before it passes to the bladder. Since the inflammation usually involves other parts of the kidney as well, it is given the more inclusive name of pyelonephritis...