Word: dam
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...years ago, when the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh left Poona, India to establish a commune in the high country of eastern Oregon. With a small flock of red-clad followers and about $40 million, Rajneesh filled an isolated valley with a small city, replete with stores, restaurants, buses, a dam, a farm, a hotel and an airport...
...river above the Watertown Dam is classified as Class B water, meaning it is considered safe for swimming...
...open next month at a cost of $375,000 to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and $75,000 to Duchesne. California Democrat George Miller, chairman of the House Interior Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources, is enraged by the expenditure. "We charge them to build a dam, we get a bowling alley instead," he said last week. The bureau has proposed that Utah residents who will be served by CUP whenever the project is completed pay back about 75% of the federal cost for the bowling alley through water charges...
Last week, as forensic experts in Brazil worked to determine whether the bones unearthed at Embu were those of Josef Mengele, the family's dam of silence crumbled. In announcing his father's death in a 100-word statement, Rolf Mengele, 41, briefly expressed "profound sympathy" to concentration- camp victims and their families. A few days later Rolf, with the family's consent, turned over to the West German magazine Bunte a batch of photographs and documents said to depict his father's 36 years on the run. At the same time, Dieter Mengele, one of Josef's nephews, told...
...racecourse was shortened from 2000 to 1750 meters because of a dam problem near the official start. This switch proved to favor the heavies as they improved their times against the first and second-place Eastern Sprints finishers, Princeton and Wisconsin...