Word: cued
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Eventually, more than 200 million cu. ft. of water a day will gush through the 13-ft.-wide pipes, as much as is carried by a major river. Put another way, the Libyans will be pumping more than twice as much water a day as the present volume of OPEC's daily oil production. Some 2,500 miles of pipeline will stretch from the desert to the coast. The branches serving Tripoli alone will be more than 1,200 miles long, a distance roughly equal to that between Switzerland and Scotland...
...Manila on the South China Sea, is the primary support and logistics base for the U.S. Seventh Fleet's 80 ships and 550 aircraft. Four floating dry docks can accommodate surface craft or submarines. Its supply depot is the Navy's largest, and its magazine holds 3.8 million cu. ft. of ammunition. Some 4,500 Filipino technicians keep 70 ships a month in good repair. The workers earn a typical salary of $1.80 an hour, one-seventh the amount in U.S. shipyards...
...suspected carcinogens as PBB, PCB and DDT. Working with EPA, the company in 1982 agreed to spend $38.5 million to clean up the area. At the golf course, all soil was removed to a depth of 3 ft. below any signs of contamination. That involved hauling 68,204 cu. yds. of dirt away. Fully l.25 million gal. of contaminated groundwater were pumped into a 3,400-ft. well lined with two cement walls. EPA considers the golf course cleaned up, as indeed it seems to be. In one sense, however, the problem was merely transported across the river. All that...
Using figures released last week, the Interior Department estimates offshore oil reserves at only 12.2 billion bbl. of crude, or 55% less than earlier predictions, and 90.5 trillion cu. ft. of gas, down 44%. If the study proves accurate, by the 1990s the U.S. may have to increase oil imports to as much as the 1977 peak of about 9 million bbl. a day, vs. 3 million bbl. today...
Unequivocal devotion to the system is to be found mainly, it seems, among the quiet, leathery revolutionaries who fought the war and who tend not to talk much about the travails that hardened their commitment. Some of their relatives share that strength. At Cu Chi, where entire families once lived in a Viet Cong-built labyrinth of tunnels that snaked along for more than 100 miles beneath U.S. bases, Nguyen Thi Tu, 60, sells fruit to visitors. "I feel better than before," says the bony woman. "We have complete freedom. We can work anywhere. We are not afraid of anything...