Word: dam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past two decades, Merritt-Chapman has had a hand in more than $1.5 billion worth of construction work, including the Mackinac Bridge, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, the Niagara Power Project, the Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona, Priest Rapids Dam in Washington and the New Jersey Turnpike. The company also undertook smaller projects ranging from roads in Ethiopia to Air Force early-warning stations in Labrador...
...countries involved reached final, formal agreement on the time, place and agenda. The meeting will be held April 12-14 at the sunny Uruguayan seaside resort of Punta del Este. The agenda will include discussions on joint inter-American programs for electric power development, road building, dam construction and other internal improvements; the expansion of industry and trade; economic integration through a Latin American common market; and the need for less emphasis on Latin American spending for military purposes and more on spending for scientific research, public health, education and agriculture...
...principle of social order, prevents the rise of moral or social chaos as a dam prevents a flood. A people who do away with the old principle of social order meet with moral disaster...
...Russia. But Peking's resources are severely limited; although China bought a third of Syria's 1966 cotton crop with convertible sterling, Moscow offered more pragmatic rewards for a longer term. The Soviets last month agreed to finance nearly half the cost of a $400 million high dam on the Euphrates-Syria's answer to Aswan-that by 1972 will double the nation's irrigated acreage and electrical output, treble its $60 million cotton crop. The Russians will also string power lines from Aleppo to the dam, build oil storage tanks at the Horms refinery...
...Defense Minister Lin Piao to work preparing it for its mission of spreading the gospel-and trying to ensure its loyalty, which is the key to much that happens in Red China. Always far more than a fighting machine, the P.L.A engages in everything from road and dam construction to social services to making propaganda movies. A year before the Revolution got under way, Lin abolished ranks in the P.L.A., a hint of how far back toward some vision of beneficent anarchy Mao intended to turn the Chinese clock...