Word: cued
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mackinac Island, Mich., last month, representatives from the Great Lakes states and two Canadian provinces (Ontario and Quebec) listened to some telling statistics from University of Michigan Civil Engineering Professor Jonathan Bulkeley. He pointed out that even a relatively small diversion from the Great Lakes, say 10,000 cu. ft. per sec.-about the volume of water sought by Montana from Lake Superior-would lower water levels enough throughout the interlocking system to cause the loss of $35 million in navigation revenue and $80 million in electrical generating ability...
Estimates of the total number of dead, injured and homeless varied wildly. United Nations Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar said that 1.5 million people-half the population of the country-had been affected by the fighting. According to Lebanese sources, about 10,000 were killed and 16,000 wounded. The State Department's Agency for International Development said that about 600,000 people from Beirut and southern Lebanon had been "directly affected." But officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross, which is distributing medical supplies in Lebanon, called these estimates "much exaggerated...
...reaching Lebanon, the U.S. and other Western countries prepared to send aid to the civilian victims of the war. In Washington, a House panel voted $20 million in emergency help for Lebanon. France sent the ship Argens with 35 tons of supplies. U.N. Secretary-General Pérez de Cuéllar announced that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency would supply $1.5 million for food, medicine, shelter and other necessities, and the U.N. World Food Program would deliver food worth $11.5 million...
...security analysts: "I recognize that in the near term our best shot at reversing our reserves decline may be to buy reserves." Cities Service will provide plenty. The Tulsa-based firm has land believed to hold at least 307 million bbl. of crude and more than 3 trillion cu...
...Canada to the North Sea, Pickens had been gunning for Cities Service since 1979. His interest was sparked by the company's ownership of upwards of 10.6 million undeveloped acres of U.S. land containing an estimated 287 million bbl. of proven oil reserves as well as 2.7 trillion cu. ft. of natural...