Word: downstream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Battles between communities over water rights, he notes, are now arising in Colorado and are likely to spread into states downstream of the rivers that flow from Colorado to the Midwest and South. Brackish water seeping into overworked underground sources is a growing woe in Florida. The energy shortage will worsen the situation because more and more water will be needed to produce coal slurry, shale oil and other synthetic fuels...
...doesn't make a damn bit of difference where the President is, the White House or the banks of the Mississippi," Press Secretary Jody Powell snapped last week. But there was no way of avoiding the contrasting images. On the Mississippi, Jimmy Carter drifted downstream in an imitation 19th century steamboat, waving, dancing and playing a calliope, stepping ashore periodically to shake hands, dandle babies and try to sell his energy program. Back east his top foreign policy aides were engaged in public disputes over who was in charge of U.S. policy in the Middle East and over what...
Rebounding from last week's defeat at the hands of Boston University, the lights came back, aided by a tailwind and a strong downstream current, to cross the finish line in a strong 5:22.0, a convincing 5.4 seconds before Williams, their closest competitor...
...foot dropoff. The way over was worse than a tightrope. There were gaps between rocks that had to be jumped. One slip and that would be it, you would be swept over the edge. Nor was there any way to search for a crossing up- or downstream. There were too many rocks to climb to even attempt to look. Which left the cliff crossing: impossible...
...miles gone and you're heading into that Eliot turn. Remember the heart attacks you had as a freshman cox, how you hated practice upstream because you couldn't make that turn going downstream, how the coach yelled as you drifted into the center of the river? Well, now imagine all those coxswains who didn't grow up on the Charles, and they're seeing that turn for the first time. And freaking. And spilling over the buoys into your course. Hold your water, yell at them, and put your port oars over the buoys. Don't miss...