Word: flows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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OVER the rivers and down the highways and along countless jungle paths, the population of East Pakistan continues to hemorrhage into India: an endless unorganized flow of refugees with a few tin kettles, cardboard boxes and ragged clothes piled on their heads, carrying their sick children and their old. They pad along barefooted, with the mud sucking at their heels in the wet parts. They are silent, except for a child whimpering now and then, but their faces tell the story. Many are sick and covered with sores. Others have cholera, and when they die by the roadside there...
...SLOW FLOW OF CYCLONE AID TO EAST PAKISTAN LAST WINTER: "My government is not made up of angels...
...conjunctivitis, laryngitis, sinusitis and hepatitis. They can also include the even more threatening bacteria that cause typhoid, cholera and leptospirosis, a sometimes serious infection carried by animal urine into streams, lakes and stagnant water. Indeed, small rural ponds can create a special hazard for swimmers. Without an adequate water flow to wash away debris, they may become breeding grounds for a heavy concentration of pathological organisms...
...companies are the biggest losers. They have invested $1.5 billion on the North Slope. Because the oil has not yet begun to flow out, the companies are losing $300 million to $400 million in annual revenues. Complains Ed Patton, president of Alyeska Pipeline, an oil-company consortium: "The costs are increasing dramatically each month. The interest alone on our investment runs to some $90 million annually." Moreover, the final cost of the pipeline may well be double the original estimate and hit $2 billion, owing to inflation and some highly complex engineering difficulties...
...deal more expertly with the fierce conditions of climate and geography. To protect the swampy tundra terrain, the companies use offshore drilling techniques. They have developed new strains of grass to grow on disturbed tundra, and they plan to install monitoring devices that would automatically turn off oil flow minutes after a leak is detected. The port of Valdez will have probably the most advanced antipollution system in the world. Problems remain, but University of Alaska Ecologist Vic Fischer says: "The basic environmental questions have been faced, and engineering can solve them...