Word: basins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) has commenced the second stage of construction on a $4 million relief sewer project designed to cut down pollution in the Charles Basin. The current segment of pipeline will run from Pleasant St. to the Weeks Memorial Bridge, paralleling the Charles River...
...Spectator, facing overwhelming odds, decided at 2:37 p.m. yesterday to reschedule the traditional newspaper clash for 3 p.m. and not tell the Crimson. However Crimson Dillion Field House Lavatory Editor, on assignment this week at the third basin, F. Ears Pope, called in the story to the news room at 2:39 p.m. Pope was delayed in calling in the story because he had to wash his hands...
...easing the poverty and political unrest of the Northeast, where nearly a quarter of the 30 million people live on the edge of starvation. The government's high hopes are that the highway will open up the natural wealth of the entire 2,700,000-sq.-mi. Amazon basin-an area almost the size of the continental U.S.-and provide vast new resettlement lands for 500,000 homesteaders over the next five years. Says Transport Minister Mario Andreazza: "We have to conquer Brazil completely, and this will do it. Transamazonia will be the dorsal spine of Brazil...
Enrico steeped himself in Satchmo's music. In 1968, he even met the great Armstrong, and played the Basin Street Blues for him. "Boy, you got some chops there!" growled the flabbergasted Louis. For two weeks Armstrong had Enrico as his backstage guest, teaching him to shoot craps and offering sporadic worldly advice: "Don't marry any woman who don't dig your horn...
LIKE the Andean republics to the north, Chile lies along the "circle of fire," a ring of volcanoes and seismic fault lines that encircle the Pacific Basin. The west coast of South America, in particular, is a storm center of seismic shocks set off by the depth and turbulence of the Peru-Chile trench offshore. One such shock struck Peru in May 1970, killing an estimated 50,000 people. The Chileans too have paid a heavy price for their geography. Some 3,000 Chileans were killed in the 1906 earthquake...