Word: cubic
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...addition to the real estate assessment on the bridge, Draper will have to pay the city 27 cents per cubic foot, or close to $10,000 annually, to purchase an air rights license for the location over Broadway...
...prairie. It is the site of the U.S. Army's Rocky Mountain Arsenal, which produced weapons and chemical agents until 1969. It now harbors corroded canisters of mustard gas, lethal phosphorus wastes from incendiary bombs, unexploded rockets and mortar shells embedded in a former firing range, millions of cubic yards of soil peppered with pesticides and an abandoned five-story production plant contaminated with nerve gas. Two vast man-made lagoons, once used as dump pits for toxic chemical and biological wastes, are the worst menaces of all. Toxic wastes have leached out of both ponds, infecting the area...
...developing world, has led to wide-scale deforestation in the rain forests of Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asiz. If all the wood used this year were stacked on a soccer field, the pile would be 250 miles high. This current consumption rate, a staggering three million cubic meters yearly, is expected to have increased by two-thirds in the year 2000. The environmental side effects of the ever-growing need are best illustrated in Africa, as a recent article in West Africa magazine contends...
...centerpiece of the U.S.-European dispute is an ambitious 3,000-mile, $10 billion pipeline through which the Soviet Union hopes to deliver up to 40 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually from its Siberian tundra, over the Urals, across the wheatfields of the Ukraine and through Czechoslovakia, all the way to the homes and factories of Western Europe. The line was scheduled to begin operating as early...
...Pyramid of Khufu, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Yet merely to level and grade Jubail's 66-sq.-mi. industrial park, a sector that comprises less than 15% of the entire city, engineers have had to shovel up and haul off 370 million cubic meters of sand-enough to fill the Khufu Pyramid 160 times over. If the landfill were used to construct a two-lane road, it would more than girdle the earth at the equator...