Word: cubical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Regarding the plan by the U.S.S.R. to reroute a dozen rivers, you state that almost 100 billion cubic kilometers of water a year would be diverted. That's enough water to cover the planet right up to its satellites. You must mean 100 cubic kilometers. If not, the Soviets should be asked to reconsider...
...water-needy Central Asian republics, and shaken by repeated agricultural failures, the Soviet leadership seems on the verge of sanctioning a water-diversion scheme that would be the grandest engineering project of all time. At least a dozen northerly-bound rivers would be reversed. By channeling 37.8 billion extra cubic kilometers of water a year to the south in European Russia and 60 billion cubic kilometers in Siberia, the project would greatly increase farm output in such arid regions as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, where the high birth rate of the largely Muslim population could overtake food production...
...years ago, dump trucks bigger than houses haul 175-ton loads of rock. The Martiki mining operation is centered around the "Mountain Mover," a power shovel about the size of a small airplane hanger. The shovel's huge bucket--which can easily hold a pickup truck--takes 76-cubic-foot bites out of the mountain 24 hours...
...French banks extended the Soviets $140 million in credit to help finance the deal. Both West Germany and Italy are also committed to supplying credits and technology for the pipeline. Administration officials believe that the project, which when completed (current target: late 1984) will pump more than 40 billion cubic meters of natural gas to Western Europe, will only increase European dependence on Moscow. What is worse, say U.S. officials, the deal will ultimately provide the Soviets with hard currency to continue their arms buildup. Even the British lack enthusiasm for economic sanctions, though Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher...
...Soyuzgas-export is hardly surprising. Already this fall, several members of the European Economic Community--including France and West Germany--entered into joint venture with the Soviet Union for the construction of a natural gas pipeline that is to run from Siberia to Western Europe. Besides, eight billion cubic meters of gas is the equivalent of five nuclear reactors. Hence the deal with the Soviets will allow Mitterrand to slow the growth of the French nuclear industry, an avowed goal of the president...