Word: channelized
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...anniversary will be a state occasion. Queen Elizabeth will cross the channel in the Royal Yacht, Britannia. Other chiefs of the old Alliance-Reagan and Mitterrand and Trudeau, the Queen of The Netherlands, the King of the Belgians-will assemble for the ceremonies before some of them go on to an economic summit in London. They will fly in helicopters over the famous beaches-Omaha, Utah and the rest. They will inspect the surf through which the invaders struggled 40 years ago, young amphibians buffeted by waves and torn by crossfires. Their landfall, in a chaos of metal and smoke...
...into an arsenal and point of departure. They built 163 new airfields. They shipped in 2 million tons of weapons and supplies, 1,500 tanks, mountains of food and fuel. Since the targeted beachfront lacked harbors, Allied engineers built two enormous artificial harbors that could be towed across the Channel and moored in place once the beaches were...
...many want to continue opening this massive drain. In June of last year, the Department of Energy released a report calling for an enormous power plant building program, geared to meet hugely inflated estimates of electrical energy demand. The DOE scenario would channel one tenth or more of all private domestic investment in the next two decades into power plant construction...
...Surveying everything from religious sermons to gay rights, the raucous newcomers have provided a voice for all manner of minority interests. More important, they have set the stage for a comparable expansion of France's tightly state-controlled television system. The government has approved a pay-TV channel and, just last week, a scheme for commercial cable television...
...would exist as long as the city's neighborhoods remained as isolated as they now are Perhaps more than any other major city. Boston is a city atomized, split between the neighborhoods and downtown, and split along geographic, racial, and ethnic lines Working class Southie is isolated across the channel and the harbor from the city's skyscrapers. The subway system barely skirts its perimeters, and to reach Southie's center, one must walk for 10 minutes through barren streets, flanked by run-down housing units and abandoned warehouses West Roxbury and communities such as Mattapan and Hyde Park...