Word: dam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...energy at an old dam...
Since one nuclear power plant can take a decade and more than $3 billion to build, and scares nearly everyone living within 50 miles, it may be better to build dozens of quietly humming, nonpolluting small dams to generate electricity. They could nestle right into some long-abandoned textile-or lumbermill dam, and draw their power from the flowing river water. That is a proposal now being tested in several New England states...
Like the wood stove and the windmill, hydroelectric power is making a comeback. This week the largest such plant to open in New England in more than half a century will be dedicated in Lawrence, Mass. Project promoters proudly wear bright red buttons that read ONE DAM SITE BETTER...
...last project, the 1964-65 New York World's Fair. Moses left behind twelve bridges, 35 highways, 658 playgrounds and more than 2 million acres of parks. He also built two Robert Moses state parks, a Robert Moses Causeway, a Robert Moses Parkway, a Robert Moses Dam at Niagara and another at Massena, which bears his name in stainless steel letters 3 ft. high. When he was forced out of power by Nelson Rockefeller in 1968, it was estimated he had spent the equivalent of $27 billion...
...difficult to get the 100,000 Nubians displaced by the big lake to adapt to the unfamiliar life of settled farmers on newly arable lands. But even with these problems, Mancy, who first gazed lovingly on the Nile as a youth in Cairo, remains enthusiastic. "Would I build the dam again?" he asks rhetorically. "I would...