Word: lake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most American cities still treat raw sewage with relatively primitive methods. Larger particles of waste are usually allowed to settle out of the polluted water, which is filtered through gravel and sand and then chlorinated before being piped to a nearby river or lake. Trouble is, such "purified" sewage is almost always contaminated with a rich brew of bacteria and viruses, to say nothing of stubborn industrial wastes that may serve as fertilizers and cause such rapid plant growth in the waters where they are dumped that all other forms of life are eventually choked...
...mouth of the canal, Port Said offers a good climate and cheap labor (skilled factory workers make $6 a day). The government would allow raw materials to enter the zone and finished products to leave it with virtually no taxation. To the south, along the canal on Lake Timsah, Osman has dreams of building a $125 million tourist resort. "The investment could be recouped in four years," he optimistically told TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn...
Vietnam stopped when I left in 1970. A week later I was skiing at Lake Tahoe, tan in the middle of February, and already my mind could not embrace the idea that the war still went...
...there is a studied ambivalence in all my attempts to come to grips with the war. And in that respect I feel kinship with the Frances FitzGerald and admiration for her attempt to bridge the gap between personal experience and historical resolution in Fire in the Lake...
...stamina," Wallace says, "an enterprising reporter just might be able to keep traveling and eating on someone else's charge account forever." American Motors Vice President Frank Hedge tells Wallace that his company's last three press demonstrations of new models were held at the Smoky Mountains, Lake Tahoe and Catalina. When Wallace suggests that such sites are chosen to encourage journalistic gratitude. Hedge replies: "You're absolutely right...