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...husband, Yakutat Mayor Larry Powell, agrees. While it is possible that the ice dam will give way under mounting water pressure behind it, there is no guarantee. He suggests that a channel be dug from the lake to the sea, bypassing the Situk so that the trapped water can escape without affecting the river. Others propose bombing the glacier: controlled explosions could blast a trench through the ice itself. But speed may be essential. Says Powell: "We're just now entering the rainy season, and at the rate it's filling, the lake could be ready to make its jump...
...occurred, and then they limited themselves to terse statements that only increased anxiety over the nature and extent of the mishap. The result, of course, was runaway rumors. In the absence of credible official information, stories began to circulate of 2,000 or more people dead and mass graves dug in the countryside...
...foregone conclusions took arduous days to achieve. Complained Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole: "We already had this vote. We've been here. We were here in March." But however lost their cause, Senate opponents of the Reagan Administration's $100 million aid package for the contra forces in Nicaragua dug in and fought. They offered impassioned rhetoric and put forward more than a dozen amendments on matters ranging from the use of U.S. military trainers to funding for Nicaragua's closed opposition newspaper La Prensa. Nearly all of them were defeated. Finally, after two stormy days of debate, the Senate...
...tend to be a little older and already established. Says Rita Bloom Smith, president of a wedding consultancy firm in Kensington, Md.: "No woman today past 25 is going to let < someone else run that show." Vincent Landano, 28, who married Maria Castellano, 24, in Brooklyn on May 31, dug into his own pocket to pay for the proceedings--including a vase of swimming goldfish to decorate each of the 24 tables at the reception and a couple of bazooka-like armaments that shot periodic showers of confetti and red feathers onto the dance floor. Vincent, a Wall Street broker...
...pick 850 lbs. of cotton to pay for it. That was hard times. And when he was digging graves, he got $15 a grave, and the worst business ever was a three week period when nobody died. "Then all of a sudden they all started dying too fast; I dug so many graves I couldn't walk...