Word: dammed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dam: Die Hard in a dam...
...Grid: Die Hard on a Canadian dam...
Sich said his study shows, however, that the dam is having adverse effects on the surrounding ecosystem. It is holding back ground water and raising the water table, which is now a mere 15 feet below ground...
Others convey all the enchanting density of Garcia Marquez's fiction at its best. In The Saint, a man from the Colombian Andes takes the miraculously preserved body of his daughter, dead at age seven and exhumed 11 years later to make way for a dam, to Rome to seek her canonization by the church. When the story ends, 22 years later, he is still waiting, another outsider absorbed into the rhythms of the Eternal City...
...will funnel heavy metals into Fisher Creek, which becomes the Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone River, the only "wild and scenic" river in northwestern Wyoming. If the Army Corps of Engineers or the Environmental Protection Agency vetoes the wetlands destruction, the next best site would require a more complicated dam, and if, or when, it failed, the mess would head downstream to Yellowstone Park...