Word: dam
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...Dam Money Indians consider many rivers sacred. Maybe that's why they throw so much money at them. One hydroelectric dam project in Jharkhand was supposed to cost $85.3 million; the dam isn't anywhere near completion after 30 years and, according to capital investment research firm Projects Today, its total budget will probably rise to $684 million. Likewise, it's expected to take close to $4 billion to complete the massively controversial Narmada dam; the original budget was $1.4 billion...
Electricity starts at the power plant, produced by a spinning generator driven by various means: a hydroelectric dam, a large diesel engine, a gas turbine or a steam turbine. The steam is created by burning coal, oil or natural gas or by a nuclear reactor...
Some flightier, more fantastic movies go heavy on the CG. Director Joseph McGinty Nichol, known as McG, lays out a bit of his new Charlie's Angels action: "The girls drive an Army truck off a dam, and while falling to their death, they climb into a helicopter on the back of the truck and fly away." Send in the computer nerds! Still, McG stresses, "Pure CG can be cartoonish. You lose the stakes. There's no jeopardy. Audiences have a built-in CG detector. So you need to be slippery. You use a lot of real elements...
Klimkiewicz’s grand slam in the first game put the Crimson up 5-1 and effectively opened the dam wide for what had been a slumping Harvard team. With the bases loaded after a Bulldog error at third and nobody out, Klimkiewicz got all of Sowers’ first pitch...
...artifacts were destroyed in the Cultural Revolution, when frenzied Red Guards chopped the heads off ancient statues and tore down thousands of temples. Today the destruction continues apace, this time in the name of modernization as local governments often choose concrete over culture. This year alone the Three Gorges Dam project will begin flooding countless archaeological sites, while hundreds of historic neighborhoods nationwide will be replaced by nondescript apartment blocks. "This is a very big country," laments Song Xinchao, a deputy director at the State Administration of Cultural Heritage in Beijing. "It's hard to keep track...