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...made some mistakes in dealing with Congress, and one that I still regret is weakening and compromising on legislation that first year dealing with some worthless dam projects. Signing this act was accurately interpreted as a sign of weakness on my part, and I regretted it as much as any budget decision I made as President...
...sudden wave was the result of two currents of floodwater joining forces on the side of the volcano just above the town, followed minutes later by the collapse of a temporary road-construction dam. The disaster, El Salvador's worst since a 1965 earthquake, followed four days of heavy rains that have devastated El Salvador and parts of Guatemala killing some 1,000 people. As much as 40% of El Salvador's basic food crops has been destroyed, and damage is estimated at $250 million...
...latest Bayreuth style came into full bloom in 1976 with the centennial production of the Ring cycle, staged by the French enfant terrible Patrice Chreau and conducted by Pierre Boulez. Using such anachronisms as the Rhine Maidens playing near a hydroelectric dam, Chéreau fashioned an allegory of the industrial revolution from Wagner's mythic tale of greed and its consequences. A vivid mixture of naturalistic detail and wild flights of imaginative fancy, the Chéreau Ring set the tone for what followed...
Union Village Dam. Five miles north of where Vermont's Ompompanoosuc River empties into the Connecticut, the dam was completed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1950 to control flooding. The dam itself will remain in federal hands, but 259 acres of surrounding land, most of it steeply sloped and heavily forested, are for sale. The site, which is not very accessible, is now used by hikers, hunters and fishermen. But its covering of pine trees might prove attractive to loggers, and this could push its price...
...Alaskan pipeline and Hoover Dam are, nothing that Bechtel has ever helped build can compare with the Jubail project. Some 324 miles northeast of the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh, on desolate salt flats washed by the Persian Gulf and baked in 100-plus temperatures for much of the year, a whole new ultramodern city is emerging. When completed in 15 years, this megastructure will cover an area as large as Greater London and contain a population as numerous as that of Minneapolis...