Word: damming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Baghdad and Damascus have improved, the two neighbors have frequently been at the brink of war - sometimes over ideology, but sometimes over rights to the waters of the Euphrates River. Last fall both governments rushed troops to the border after Iraq complained that Syria's vast new Tabqa dam on the Euphrates, built with Soviet funds and assistance, was depriving Iraqi farmers downstream of necessary water...
...does The Day the Dam Broke, a classic Thurber apocalypse, succeed as a twenty minute dramatic monologue, although Kerry Konrad struggles bravely through it. But in the second act, where the skits are fewer and the acting more demanding, everything comes together, culminating in James Doherty's painfully schizo portrayal of Walter Mitty...
...event that would release money for the study of earthquake prediction and control is the very disaster that scientists are trying to avert: a major quake striking a highly populated area without any warning. Tens of thousands of people living in the flood plain of the Van Norman Dam had a close call four years ago in the San Fernando Valley quake; had the tremor lasted a few more seconds, the dam might have given way. When the San Andreas Fault convulses again-as it surely must-or when another, less notorious fault elsewhere in the U.S. suddenly gives...
...Khan listens to the words of a young explorer from Venice. The Khan's dominions have grown in scope and compass out of understanding, their diverse, unimagined wonders lost in last formlessness. As Marco Polo describes the fantastic cities he has visited in his wanderings, his words are a dam against despair. The emperor hopes to discern in them, "through the walls and towers destined to crumble, the tracery of a pattern so subtle it could escape the termites' gnawing...
...Africa, Mozambique gains at least $250 million a year, mostly from earnings of the 100,000 Mozambicans who work in the South African mines; this represents more than half of Mozambique's national income. When electric power starts flowing to South Africa from Mozambique's Cabora Bassa dam in October, Mozambique could make another $50 million a year. Commercial ties probably outweigh ideology and are likely to continue...