Word: branched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last summer China's central Hubei province suffered weeks of torrential rains that led to the worst flooding the country has seen in 26 years. While giant dikes held back the main torrent of the mighty Yangtze River, 142 branch levees burst, spilling water over the low, rice-growing terrain, affecting some 6.2 million peasant families. Says one observer of the disaster area: "Much of the land is covered by silt and debris, and can't be cultivated. There are villages where absolutely everything has been swept away." Though a cleanup is well under way, tens of thousands...
James E. Cohen '83, head of the HRZL, information branch, said CCA members also passed out the leaflets, which contained a chart linking Isracli arms to "repressive regimes," at MIT. Boston University. Northeastern, and at the Government Center in Boston. Cohen said, one CCA member told him he was paid to leaflet...
...store, supposedly a cooperative chartered to serve students at Harvard and MIT, expand and build a branch in downtown Boston, a location which Coop managers can hardly claim serves student interests...
Solar energy, however, will not be able to compete economically with fossil fuels, although existing tax credits and subsidies encourage homeowners to use some technologies, the report's author. Michael Shapiro, a former associate professor and the current chief of the Regulation Impacts Branch of the Environmental Protection Agency, says...
...last ditch effort to save her life, friends sent Rossall, 31, to Dallas last month to be treated at the Brookhaven Medical Center's Environmental Control Unit. The unit is one of a handful of clinics in the U.S. devoted to a new and controversial branch of medicine, clinical ecology. Specialists in the field, founded by Chicago Allergist Theron Randolph, 74, theorize that some people are especially sensitive to man-made chemicals in the environment, and suffer allergic-type reactions. Says Randolph: "These individuals rapidly become susceptible to a wider range of materials. Sooner or later, in the worst...