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Opponents of the Garrison say that in order to bring water to its 250,000 acres, the project would disrupt 220,000 acres now being farmed. Runoff water from the irrigated areas would leach salty chemicals from the soil and carry them into the Souris and Red rivers. Richard Madson, a local representative of the Audubon Society, calls the dispute over the Garrison "a classic test of whether the bureaucracy can be slowed down once it's moving...
...Meyer, lecturer on Economics at Harvard, said he disagreed with Pindyck. Meyer said the United States must not disrupt its economic relationship with OPEC. "It's an addict-pusher relationship," he added...
Warmer weather spread across the country yesterday, alleviating one of the worst cold spells in the nation in decades, threatening to disrupt the foliage cycles of numerous trees in the Cambridge area, the delicate hormonal balance of Harvard students, and weekend plans for cross country ice skaters...
WHEN ONE lonely bureaucrat threatened to disrupt the vaccine establishment's unanimity, the bureaucracy acted quickly to discredit...
...here at Harvard, Reading Period will take a weekend vacation. Super Bowl XI, in all its monstrous proportions, will arrive to disrupt studies and dominate activity (or the lack thereof...