Word: channelize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bureau of Reclamation so bitterly opposed by Shatz is an agency of the Department of the Interior. Founded in 1902 to irrigate the barren West, the bureau has spent $7.6 billion to dam, channel, pump and divert almost anything that flows in that vast region. The bureau's proudest monuments: the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River and the Grand Coulee on the Columbia...
...that Congress authorized financing for a 232-mile waterway, which by the time work was scheduled to begin in 1971 was budgeted at $323 million. As plans stand, Tenn-Tom, now priced at $1.6 billion, will require the construction of six dams and eleven locks, digging a 27-mile channel through the foothills of the Tennessee ridge and moving more earth than did the construction of the Panama Canal...
...investigate the feasibility of a core curriculum in more detail, it would be appropriate to have students on the committees. Such concern for student input is encouraging. In his new job, Bowersock will be chairman of the Committee on Undergraduate Education and thus will serve as a vital channel through which student opinion can be communicated to the Faculty. He will have a continuing responsibility, then, to understand and articulate student views. A final evaluation of his appointment will be based largely on how effectively he fills this role...
Marquette University won the NCAA basketball title last night over North Carolina, and you'll have to pardon me if I don't get some of the details straight. You see it's kinda hard to watch a basketball game when your ballet-crazy brother keeps switching the channel to check out what's happening with the Harlem Dance Company special...
...invention of the remote control channel-changer for televisions may go down as one of the greatest of all time. It is certainly heaven on earth for those of us who abhor commercials yet are too lazy to make the 10-foot trek to and from the tube itself. But last Sunday afternoon, no matter how often I pushed the clicker, all I saw was boxing. And then a strange thing happened: I began to think...