Word: excelsior
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...code name is Excelsior, and the preliminary plan alone fills a portfolio the size of a breadbox. If all goes according to plan, on Nov. 4, 1999, the Governor of Minnesota will stand on a platform in Duluth and pull a golden lanyard, opening the gates of the Superior Diversion Canal, a concrete waterway the size of the Suez. Water from Lake Superior will flood into the canal at a rate of 50 billion gal. per hour and go south...
...past, Lake Superior, which represents one-tenth of the world's supply of freshwater, was considered "inviolable," but with environmental groups in retreat and a Republican Congress favoring "wise use" of natural resources, the Excelsior project is moving full tilt toward opening...
Charles J. Bodenstab Excelsior, Minnesota...
Abrahams started the annual Ig Nobel ceremony in 1991 with the support of Warren Seamans, director of the MIT museum. The prizes are a legacy from the estate of the legendary Ignatius ("Ig") Nobel, the inventor of excelsior (packing material) and co-inventor of soda...
Jones says Clinton made his move on May 8, 1991, five months before he launched his presidential bid. On that day they were both at Little Rock's Excelsior Hotel for an annual gathering of business executives and government officials. Jones, who was then a 24-year-old clerk (salary: $10,270) for the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission, a state agency, was working at a table in the hotel lobby, handing out name tags. Her account of the episode proceeds like this...