Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only one sleep technique has worked. Each night I program a sequence of soothing music which delivers me into a deep and peaceful slumber. As soon as the sequence ends, however, I'm up. Without input from the compact disc player, the speakers pick up a local rap radio station...
...really living with a false sense of security," warns George Mitchell, an independent Houston oilman. "We're heading for deep trouble." What provokes Mitchell's dire prediction is the shriveled condition of the U.S. oil-drilling industry, which he believes has made the country seriously vulnerable to a future energy emergency. "We're losing ground faster than we might have predicted even a few months ago," he says. Adds John Watson, another Houston oilman: "All the people have left, rigs have been dismantled, the financial industry has turned its back on oil and gas. It would take...
...your hackles up, California. We are here to discuss that choke-thy- neighbor word, water. Here being a quintessentially innocuous looking and provocative setting, the Los Angeles water intercept on Lee Vining Creek in the eastern Sierras. On a brilliant winter afternoon, knee-deep snow covers the intake pond behind a small concrete dam, and a Steller's jay swoops among the evergreens. Mount Dana, lacking only an Ansel Adams moon, is lit up crisply against a cloudless sky. And in the background (the sticking point), there is the sound of rushing water...
What to do? An acre-foot is the amount of water it would take to flood an acre one foot deep, and if you can find 70,000 of them lying around for the taking in Southern California, you can probably change your name to Yahweh and begin collecting burnt offerings. No obvious replacement source presented itself in the Mono Lake dispute until recently, when an economist named Zach Willey suggested that the city and the environmentalists get together to buy water from farmers on the western side of the Sierras in California's vast central valley...
...from West Germany: some $1 billion a year in bank credits and other transfers. East Germany also profits from back-door access to the rich European Community market through West German middlemen. The special treatment reflects West Germans' strong emotional bond with their countrymen across the Berlin Wall -- and deep-seated hopes that the two Germanys may one day be reunited...