Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emotional level will be very high," Dooley said. "Princeton will be very emotional because they're mostly veterans. Our freshmen are making a tremendous adjustment from high school to this kind of emotional play. It's brand new. Ice hockey is a very emotional game and its a very individualistic type of emotional. It's a learning process...
DeVillars said Quabbin, the largest reservoir in the Northeast, is usually at 81 percent capacity and is down this year to 68 percent. It is at its lowest level since March 1967, when it fell to 45 percent. The last water emergency was declared when the reservoir's level was 65 percent in 1965, the beginning of a four-year drought, according to MDC records...
...Commissioner William Geary warned that the low level in the reservoir could hurt the quality of drinking water...
...When the level goes down, you begin to get into an aesthetic situation, the clarity of the water," Geary said. "Below that you get to health and safety situations...
Greenbaum added that the water quality drops in three steps as the level declines. First, sand and sediments at the bottom of the reservoir mix, causing tap water to appear dirty. Also, as the water gets shallower, its temperature rises, meaning bacteria have a better chance to survive...