Word: dikes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crotonville. David Sive and Alfred S. Forsyth, New York environmental lawyers, duly went to work for a coalition including the Sierra Club and the Citizens Committee for the Hudson Valley. In a federal district court, Sive argued that drawings prepared by the Army Corps of Engineers depicted a large dike, extending 1,000 feet into the river, and a causeway. He then cited an 1899 federal law that forbids building dikes and causeways "over or in" navigable waterways unless Congress first authorizes the project and the Secretary of Transportation approves. No such approval for the New York road had been...
...Kenneth Onwuka Dike, a former ambassador-at-large for Biafra, has been named a tenured professor of History at Harvard. His appointment begins next Fall...
...expert on African development, Dike has served as professor of History and vice-chancellor of the University of Fbadan in Nigeria...
...Dike has been a leading figure in the development and preservation of historical materials in Nigeria. He has been active in several organizations which are promoting the development of higher education in Africa...
Imagine getting to be 55 and having the unbearable sensation that, after all, you have nothing, because you've been preparing all your life, nurturing your fugitive vision of security, one finger always in the dike, somewhere a decorous pinky floating over your inexorably cooling cup of tea, and you didn't feel your viscera, sagging with disuse and un-excitement, sighing into atrophy. You lost your sense of where love was and might have been, inside your insides. The beast in the jungle, at last. You don't even love yourself, so you have to prove that...