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...hundred and fifty million years ago (is this not the way James Michener would begin?), a depression that would come to be known as the Permian Basin developed in what would come to be known as West Texas. Then, to make a long story short (the demands here are somewhat more telescopic than those Big Jim labors under), there would be dinosaurs and much later there would be fossil fuels. Cow towns called Midland and Odessa would be established, their commercial cornerstones eventually to shift from cattle to the petroleum that lay beneath the desert pocked by what the Spanish...
...involve the Colorado's water. Since the river's harvest is fixed, and already overal-located, experts warn that the only way to accommodate these and other projects is through planning and austerity. In dry days to come, Arizona's new canals may prove to be the Colorado River basin's last big splurge. --By William R. Doerner. Reported by Richard Woodbury/Phoenix and Robert C. Wurmstedt/Denver
Draconian measures may also be in store for an area reaching well beyond Arizona. Six other states (Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Nevada and California) fall inside the Colorado River basin. Under an agreement reached in 1922, each state is entitled to a portion of the river's waters. Arizona's share was set at 2.8 million acre-feet, roughly one-fifth of the Colorado's flow. Because it lacked transporting capacity, however, the state has used less than half of its legal entitlement, allowing California to take much of the remainder. The CAP's new flow will thus...
...churning locomotive of the world economy. But when that engine of growth sputtered and slowed this year, many of the trading partners it was pulling along practically lurched off the track. The jolt was particularly rough on the export-driven economies of the Pacific Basin. In Taiwan, which depends on the American market to absorb nearly half its exports, growth in the production of goods and services, adjusted for inflation, has fallen from 10.9% in 1984 to a projected 4.2% this year. Over the same period, Singapore's rate of expansion has dropped from 8.2% to an estimated...
...effects of shifts in the co-ed team’s lineup rippled into the No. 9 women’s team, which finished eighth of 12 teams in a weekend regatta on the Charles’ Lower Basin...