Word: gal
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...that followed as a result. Originally the compact looked like simplicity itself. The Upper and Lower Basins would each receive 7.5 million acre-feet annually. (An acre-foot is the amount of water needed to cover an acre of land to a depth of 12 in., approximately 325,000 gal. That is enough to fulfill the needs of a family of four or five people for one year.) A 1944 treaty guaranteed an additional 1.5 million acre-feet to Mexico. All fine and dandy, except for one thing: the Colorado's output was grossly overestimated. Instead of the 16.9 million...
...CINEMA A gal-buddy picture is summer's first...
...commit one last heist, will try to shoulder out Backdraft, director Ron Howard's fireman-buddy epic starring Kurt Russell and Robert De Niro. Maybe those two films will duke it out all summer. Or maybe they will cream each other and leave space for late May's gal-buddy movie, Thelma and Louise, with Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis. The success of T&L, or of Soapdish with Sally Field and Whoopi Goldberg, or of Warshawski with Kathleen Turner would mark the welcome infiltration of female-star vehicles in the boys' camp of summer movies...
...first ships scheduled to arrive in Kuwait's freshly de-mined harbor carried several hundred Buick luxury sedans rather than badly needed construction equipment. Still, progress has been made in meeting the country's most basic requirements. Kuwait's desalination plants are now producing about 71 million gal. of water daily. Consumption is about 100 million gal. a day, but water brought in by ship makes up the shortfall. Most residents now get their water from rooftop storage tanks, but within a few months the city's reservoirs should be full enough to generate water pressure in taps...
...telephone line to the gulf. In one conversation between Seaman and correspondent Scott MacLeod, the reporter explains that he hopes to drive into bomb-ravaged Baghdad -- where CNN's Peter Arnett has promised him the use of his telephone line. But in exchange for phone privileges, Arnett wants 25 gal. of gasoline. The two men calmly discuss the wisdom of carrying a carload of explosive fuel into the heart of a virtual fire storm. "It certainly gives you a sense of the danger involved," says McGowan...