Word: damming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Syrian President has tried to steer a middle course between the superpowers. He has paid cash for Soviet arms and welcomed Soviet help in building the Euphrates Dam (which will probably not be fully operational for another decade because of major flaws in planning). But Assad has parted company with the Soviets over their policy in Ethiopia, where he continues to support the breakaway Eritrean rebels. He also has improved relations with Washington, which allocated his government $90 million in aid this year. Recently, Assad opened up Syria's northeast oil region to two American companies?a sign, some aides...
...love of gold we routed the Indian from his homeland and livelihood, and now we sink the dam at Tellico to save the snail darter. O temporal O mores...
...MacArthur is a peculiar homegrown Yankee product, one of those ingenious cranks who are likely to do the Republic some good-in spite of itself. Hardly had the dam fallen than he was on the phone to Washington, inquiring cheerfully about a low-interest loan. He happened to be (he explained to the voice going uh-huh on the other end) just the American that President Carter always talks about. He was-reverent pause-a small businessman. He also happened to be another of the President's favorite people: an energy-crisis fighter, an advocate and indeed a practitioner...
...mechanical engineer, not a social engineer," he says in his guise as realist. "I was an English major at Bates. The nearest I came to formal science was a minor in geology. That's all right. The Teton Dam and the Hartford Civic Center were both designed by engineers. The state of Maine's made up of tinkerers -they'll tackle anything-and maybe that's what the world needs...
...sentiment is growing in Congress to change the law. One amendment, backed by Tennessee Republican Senator Howard Baker, would enable a review committee to waive the law when an "irresolvable conflict" arose, as in the case of the Tellico Dam. "If all else fails," said Tennessee Governor Ray Blanton, "well promote it as the world's largest monument to the world's smallest fish...