Word: flows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...environmentalists called the deaths "a major catastrophe." The question remained: Why had the rivers risen to deadly levels? Eskimo leaders and others blamed Hydro-Quebec, the province's government-owned utility. They charged that it had allowed too much water to spill over the dam that controls the flow of the two rivers. The Eskimos, or Innuit, as they are called in Canada, use the meat of the free-roaming caribou for food, the pelts for clothing and bedding, and the bones for utensils...
Hydro-Quebec said the river conditions resulted from the unusually heavy September rains in the region, and that the volume of river flow had been reduced by the construction of its dam. "Our position," said Hydro-Quebec Spokesman Jean-Guy Ouimet, "is that we are spilling less water than nature would...
...most important bits of business that Congress left unfinished last week was lifting the federal debt ceiling, which already stands at a Himalayan height of $1.57 trillion. Without a higher debt limit, the U.S. Treasury could lose its license to borrow and have a serious cash-flow problem beginning as early as this week. That prospect is unthinkable for a free-spending Government that even by optimistic Administration projections will chalk up a deficit of $166.9 billion in fiscal 1985, which began...
...return for agreeing to the new measures, Argentina will get $1.4 billion in IMF loans during the next 15 months. But the money will not start flowing until December, assuming the IMF board gives final approval to the deal worked out last week. That will give Argentina time to begin putting the austerity program in place, thus demonstrating its good intentions to the IMF. The agreement, the government hopes, will lead to a flow of new loans from U.S. banks. Grinspun and Alfonsín have reportedly asked for $5.5 billion in fresh borrowing, but the banks so far have...
...steady flow of PC repairs has slowed down in the last week. Galvin said, but first-year MBA candidate Maury A. Peiperl said he and about 40 other students have computers that fail to read the disk right after it is put in the drive...