Word: basins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House Bill 1773: this would prohibit the MDC from building the underpasses until it had completed a survey of the Charles River Basin and determined that the underpasses fitted in with "the most advantageous development of the river front area...
...company is ICOMI (for Indústria e Comércio de Minérios), which is owned 51% by Brazilians and 49% by Bethlehem Steel Corp. ICOMI owns the exclusive rights to one of the world's biggest known reserves of manganese ore, discovered in the Amazon Basin in 1946. By careful planning, efficient management and plain luck, it has not only launched a highly successful mining operation but completely avoided the abuse that Brazil's ultranationalists have heaped on other mining firms that have foreign interests...
From the new highway snaking through the jungles of western Hon duras to the huge irrigation and power project that is transforming Pakistan's Indus River Basin, many of the world's underdeveloped areas owe much to an organization that most Westerners have never heard of. The organization is the International Development Association, a branch of the World Bank founded in 1960 by 15 World Bank member nations to make "soft," easy-term loans-with no political strings attached-to poor nations. Last week IDA reached a milestone when the total it has loaned passed $1 billion...
...nations that have received IDA loans, India has benefited most, receiving $485 million for industrial imports, railways and telecommunications. Pakistan is next with credits of $242.7 million, $58 million of it for the Indus Basin development. IDA has also lent to emerging African nations a total of $72 million for such projects as a 112-mile, all-weather highway across Swaziland and school construction in Tanganyika. Latin America has been granted nearly $100 million to build transportation and agricultural facilities and to improve municipal water supplies...
...fact Killington Basin claims the highest skiing in Vermont with a base elevation of 2200 feet rising to a top elevation of 4241 feet with December to May skiing...