Word: downstream
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...crew was clearly faster and we could see them catch up on the straight-aways and then fall back on the turns as our coxswain steered tighter. The boats were timed separately, and over the 26 minutes we lost by 12 seconds. However, on the 15-minute race back downstream we won by 19 seconds, making us the overall winners of the practice. The rhythm felt a little rushed at times and I wasn't always getting full compression. Also, although the catch and finish timing looked good, we weren't accelerating through the stroke and the boat felt pretty...
Barred from accounting courses at the Harvard Business School (HBS) and wary of the courses offered at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), undergraduates feeling the lack of an accounting course in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences head downstream...
That she does--desperately. The Indian government launched a program to restore the river in 1986. In Varanasi--where 60,000 people gather daily, most for a holy dip--pumps were set up to divert sewage to a new treatment plant downstream. The pumps often stop because of electricity shortages, however, and the treatment facility is ineffective...
HYDROELECTRIC DAMS Dams hurt baby fish by slowing down water, which raises its temperature and increases the time it takes the young to get to the ocean. Others are killed by hydroelectric turbines before they can even start downstream. Adult fish swimming upstream often fail to make it over the dam, as staircase-like "fish ladders" prove only partly effective. Some dams must be redesigned; others should be removed...
...their boat drifted downstream, a team member yelled out "Oh my God, it's a dead body...