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...most visible example of British??commitment to adaptation is the Thames Barrier, a set of hulking but beautiful silver floodgates that stretch across the namesake waterway about 11 miles downriver from central London. When the Barrier became operational in 1983, 30 years after the massive flood that motivated its construction, planners expected that it might have to close once or twice a year to keep ocean-storm surges from inundating London. In the past decade, however, the Barrier has been closing an average of 10 times a year. "The Barrier was initially designed to offer...
...approval in principle at a Common Market summit in Bremen last month, and had been presented to President Carter and other leaders of the industrial West at the subsequent Bonn summit. British Prime Minister James Callaghan, however, remained cool toward the idea. In the first place, the British???and for that matter, the Italians as well?are reluctant to tie the pound and other weak European currencies to the superstrong West German mark. Second, London feels that the scheme was somehow imposed on the rest of the Community by what it regards as a fast-developing and potentially dominant Franco...
...caused by the Mahatma's fast. Daily, then hourly, then every few minutes the King-Emperor, Prime Minister MacDonald and the India Office received bulletins from the eight doctors at Yerovda Jail, not to mention bales of cablegrams from the Viceroy and hundreds of Indian leaders. If? worried the British???if Gandhi actually died without breaking his fast, would that release the violence which hundreds of millions of Indians are capable* of exerting, but which the Mahatma forbade? Far more potent than the potent Kipling IF was the Gandhi IF last week...
Free education, which?according to the British???has spoiled America's appetite for school...
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