Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...giant bulwark rises in the Thames as a flood barrier...
...maintain services, their task made all the more difficult by power blackouts, loss of telephone service, contamination of the water supply and the difficulty of mobilizing rescue teams. The Houses of Parliament and New Scotland Yard stand in several feet of water. Total damages from the great Thames flood: more than $6 billion...
...their use of cases as illustrations of a source for class study. A case is a set of facts or circumstances adopted from real life business situations for use as a tool for business analysis. A case can be a copiously researched paper or a small drama; it can flood students with data or can leave them searching for more. The forms a case can take seem limited only by the aim and ability of the professor researching and presenting...
...Flood...
...vain. Inevitable, inexorable, creeps forward the tide of men's despair in this petty world of fact ("There was a flood in Boston in 1835, maybe there will be again"). And all will be in vain, gurp, forever ("If it was 1835 I wouldn't have to go on the unicycle to Revere Beach, I could drown in my rooms...