Word: damming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cloakrooms, the caucuses and the corridors-cajoling, persuading, convincing and sometimes threatening. A fellow Senate Democrat once explained Johnson's techniques in relatively benign terms: "The secret is, Lyndon gives and takes. If you go along with him, he gives you a little here and there-a dam, or support for a bill." But a good many Senators can testify that when such conciliation failed, they had their arms twisted almost permanently out of place...
...year-largely because of the success of an ASEA control device that can check the weight and thickness of a sheet of metal without touching it. ASEA is in the running for a contract to supply $50 million worth of equipment for a high-voltage power line from Bonneville Dam to Los Angeles, and last week Nicolin said that he plans to begin selling synthetic industrial diamonds in the U.S. by next year. Though ASEA will face some rough diamond competition, it can lay claim to one prestigious distinction: the world's first synthetic diamonds were produced...
...Nile will start rising next September as construction progresses on the new Aswan High Dam, and by 1968, a lake will cover the Nile valley and the surrounding desert from Aswan to the Sudan. Originally, Abu Simbel seemed doomed to vanish and dissolve beneath the rising water. It has required great engineering imagination and four years of desperate fund raising by UNESCO to assure survival for the temples to Ramses II and his queen, Nefestari...
...effort to save it must be difficult and prohibitively expensive. The French proposed building a dam to protect it from the Aswan lake, but their plan would have required constant pumping to remove seepage from the pourous sandstone under Abu Simbel. And it would have cost at least $80 million...
...Italian intellectuals, would-be intellectuals and influential admirers all over the world. After Dolci had gone nine days without food in a flyblown little room off the Piazza Matrice, the town square, a Christian Democrat bigwig from Palermo announced to the crowds that the government would start building the dam in November 1964 and, if it proved impractical, promised that the money would be spent on other needed projects in the area. It seemed a long time to wait, but then waiting is a way of life in Roccamena...