Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...task of evaluating far larger public works is extremely difficult because of the imprecise factors involved, including assessments of the economic advantages, the benefits of flood control, safety, the damage to the environment and the trouble and cost of dislocating people and communities. Three of the biggest undertakings that Carter has put under close review-and whose construction he firmly opposes...
...result: a 100 ft. high wall of water that would rupture other dams downstream and all but drown the Sacramento area. At last week's federal hearing on the project, Civil Engineer Harry Cedergren said that the collapse of the Auburn could "kill up to 1 million people, flood 1,000 square miles of developed land, inundate five military installations and cause $40 or $50 billion in property damage...
More than 70 per cent of the 500 members remaining in the class have contributed this year, Richard T. Flood '27, senior adviser to the Fund, said yesterday...
...Silvio Conte (R-Ma.) unsuccessfully opposed Rep. Daniel J. Flood (D-Pa.), chairman of the subcommittee, over the cut. Funds for the University of Pennsylvania school and a proposed school in Washington state were also approved...
...service with his bittersweet offering Laughing Last, a readable and engaging biography (if it can be classified as such) of his father, Alger Hiss. While the Nixon gang and assorted witnesses and prosecutors continue to churn out bestsellers, this slim volume may be lost in the flood tide of confessions, which is a shame, because Hiss brings a great deal of honest emotion and reflection to his subject, a claim his competitors hardly can make...