Word: basin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sober analysis the case against U.S. Central American policy since 1980 must be qualified extensively, and in fact the Reagan record should stand the test of time extremely well. Economic aid to the region triples the amount of military aid. The Caribbean Basin Initiative of 1982 holds out additional economic hope for the nations of the region. Even Cuba seems to offer the possibility for rapprochement. Against such a record the constant liberal clamor for talks loses cogency. Why talk with someone who has no reason to listen? Ronald Reagan and his Administration have provided forceful incentive for both...
...recent deluge is only the latest crisis in the Great Salt Lake's erratic history. Lying in the Great Basin between the Rockies and Sierra Nevadas, the lake collects runoff from the nearby Wasatch Range. Its only outlet is through evaporation, so the lake becomes 2 million tons richer each year in mountain minerals that have no means of escape. Some parts of the lake can be eight times saltier than the ocean. Perhaps even more remarkable, the Great Salt Lake generates its own weather system, known as the dreaded lake effect (DLE). During early spring, when a storm...
Mexico City has another natural peculiarity that makes it unable to support its millions. At 7,350 ft., it is one of the highest cities in the world, and yet it lies in a 50-mile-wide basin surrounded by mountains rising 3,000 ft. higher, notably the snow-covered volcanoes Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl. ("The two monsters," D.H. Lawrence wrote of them, "watching gigantically and terribly over their lofty, bloody cradle of men ... murmuring like two watchful lions.") The thin air not only contains 30% less oxygen than at sea level but makes auto engines produce...
...year the paper advised in an Olympics guidebook that "the car's the thing, and if you have one or have rented one, be sure to become familiar with Los Angeles streets and freeways. (This is the key to 'happy' motoring in and around the large basin...
...settlement of the frontier also has a deeper meaning; it is a new turning inward by a continent used to relying on its ties with other parts of the world for its sustenance. The Amazon basin represents a huge region whose conquest and utilizations is one of the continent's brightest hopes...