Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Natural Reservoirs. The object of the new dams on the headwaters is to even out the flow, holding water in reservoirs during the flood season, and letting it out when needed. Luckily for Egypt, the reservoirs are already half built. On the main tributaries, the Blue and White Niles, there are big lakes that need only dams at their outlets to turn them into ideal storage basins...
Against these threats, the television industry had three main arguments: 1) no one has really done anything very objectionable on TV; 2) individual stations and networks are adhering to the National Association of Broadcasters' radio code; 3) anyway, television is interstate commerce, and thus not subject to state regulation...
Though the auditorium was already filled when he walked on stage, Mr. Edward Weeks, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, said that his main purpose was not to introduce the Sitwells as much as to talk until all latecomers had been seated. And to put the audience in the proper frame of mind for hearing poetry read, he said...
...natural policy-forming body. Its members are informed and active participants in the Key; the Executive group has acted more or less as a rubber stamp for the Cabinet's decisions. The cabinet should be made officially what it turned out to be in practice: the main policy-making body...
...fear of having the other services gang up against it, and the Air Force's equally strong desire to get out from under Army control. The Army wanted to make sure it would get sufficient direct air support, and the Navy plugged for carrier task-forces as our main striking weapon. After the long fight, the office of the Secretary of Defense was finally created to supervise three specialized secretaries for Air, Navy and Army. The basic conflicts on wartime functions made the services wary of putting too much executive power in the job, however, and the three secretaries were...