Word: bottoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaked to the press. The sense of urgency increased last month when officials decided to save water by adding an extra week to the dam's annual 21-day maintenance period, when water flow is sharply reduced. The results downstream were dramatic: parts of the Nile's muddy bottom in Cairo were exposed for the first time, and tourist boats cruising between Aswan and Luxor suddenly confronted midstream sandbars, making passage impossible...
Paper ties. Many natives wondered why the Chicago Tribune endorsed Al Gore, who was at the bottom of the paper's polls. But Editor Jim Squires is a close friend of Gore's and talks with him regularly. The relationship dates back to the early 1970s, when Gore worked for Squires as a cub reporter on the Nashville Tennessean. The top editors of the Atlanta Constitution and Orlando Sentinel also worked with Gore in Nashville, and both papers likewise endorsed...
...stopping at this amusement center where a farmer took an old wheat silo, lined it with padding, and put a DC-4 engine at the bottom. We'll put on parachute gear and just float around for a while," Constan says...
...bottom half of the ninth inning--when Buddy Bell smashed a home run over the left field wall to give the Indians a victory--my cousin forgave Paul. We were all Indians fans and we were happy...
...Bottom of the ninth, two outs, the score tied at three. Red Sox and Yankees, winner-take-all sudden-death playoff...