Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with his father, 41, realized that "we were going up and down. And all of a sudden I saw the ground coming up, and the pilot said we were going to crash." The Electra skidded into an open field near an apartment complex, jumped a 20-ft.-wide irrigation ditch, careered into a sales lot for recreational vehicles along Interstate 395 and burst into a ball of fire...
...heaviest on the crew. I lose weight properly for as long as I can but then fast as a last ditch measure," says Streeter. When asked if she would advocate her method, she says, "I would advocate doing it only as a last minute measure...
Their concern is understandable. When it was first opened in 1825 by Governor DeWitt Clinton, the canal provided the only practical way of hauling cargo across New York. For decades it prospered. But the coming of, first, the railroads, then oil and gas pipelines, eventually turned "Clinton's ditch" into something of an anachronism, and now, traffic on the system is down to a trickle. As recently as 1973, commercial shippers moved a total of 2,548,113 tons of freight on the New York State barge canal system. Last year they moved only 579,777 tons. Shippers have...
...some places. Foreign debt has risen to $3.4 billion, and export revenues (primarily from bananas, shrimp and light manufacturing) are falling. Panama is not benefiting much from the country's famous waterway, which was transferred to joint U.S.Panamanian administration under the 1977 Panama Canal treaties. The Big Ditch, historically a not-for-profit concern, last year showed an operating loss of $4 million, reflecting a worldwide shipping slump. One of Ardito Barletta's first unpleasant chores will be a round of belt tightening prescribed by the International Monetary Fund. The measures include a removal of food subsidies, which...
...most gorgeous areas on earth before they dug the dirty ditch...