Word: damming
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...targets; residents looked at their skylines, wondering if they would be different in the morning. The Sears Tower in Chicago was evacuated, as were colleges and museums. Disney World shut down, and Major League Baseball canceled its games, and nuclear power plants went to top security status; the Hoover Dam and the Mall of America shut down, and Independence Hall in Philadelphia, and Mount Rushmore. It was as though someone had taken a huge brush and painted a bull's-eye around every place Americans gather, every icon we revere, every service we depend on, and vowed to take them...
...Ford cars ringed the entrances and exits, with FBI staffers decked out in black and brandishing MP5 assault rifles. Even Express Mail trucks were searched by the FBI before they were allowed onto the premises. Gas pipeline companies were beefing up security at key transmission stations. Grand Coulee Dam in central Washington State was locked down. Gasoline stations around the country were running out of gas as motorists rushed to top off their tanks...
...eight, his parents divorced. After he nearly failed the fifth grade, his mother moved swiftly to intervene. She sharply restricted television viewing time for him and his older brother Curtis and required them to submit weekly reports on books they had read (Carson's first: Chip the Dam Builder). It wasn't until years later that the brothers learned that their mother, who left school after third grade, could barely read what they wrote...
...megabits per second is roughly 35 times as fast as conventional modems. Each customer pays $18 a month for the service; the municipality covered the installation costs of nearly $345,000. It can afford to: Modalen earns more than $2 million a year from the nearby hydroelectric dam...
...Japan Alps of 7,300, to see him. "They say I'm a dictator," he said, drawing laughter and applause from the adoring crowd, which listened for three hours as he railed against the prefectural legislators, the $13 million of debt the Nagano government has piled up, the dam projects and his attempts to hire more teachers and provide more services for the handicapped. Then he told a story about a bakery run by mentally disabled entrepreneurs. The story provoked tears?though a whole lot were from Tanaka himself...