Word: meter
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...completed some time this year, Tibet as we know it will be gone forever. Already Lhasa is at least six times more populous than when the Dalai Lama knew it, and covers an area 20 times larger than the one square mile of old. A replica of a 40-meter-high mountain stands across from the Potala Palace, and the blue-glass shopping centers around Friendship Street, Happiness Street and Liberation Street would not look out of place in Las Vegas. The few traditional Tibetan buildings still left standing are like an artificially renovated "Old Town" in the middle...
...problem with high humidity deep in the cave," says Pascal Allard, the cave's director. "Thanks to the work that's been done in Lascaux, we don't have to spend so much time figuring out how to monitor conditions here. We're doing the same kind of meter-by-meter surveillance of the cave that they developed there. We don't have the same kind of problems, but that's partly because Lascaux has shown the importance of limiting visitation and keeping a close eye on the cave's condition." The same precautions are maintained at font de gaume...
...since the late 1990s. We balanced performance and cost, and it turned out to be what customers wanted. If you look at what makes Opteron such a good product, it has tremendous benefits in cost of energy consumption and in terms of architecture. The performance per watt per cubic meter has become a very critical parameter--and we excel in such measures...
...Saretsky as Haggerty’s replacement, effective July 1. Saretsky, the associate director of the track and field program at Iona College, is a 1999 graduate of Columbia University. In college, he starred as a two-time All-Ivy runner and Ivy League Heptagonal champion in the 3200-meter relay. In five years at Iona, Saretsky led the Gaels to four straight top-10 finishes at the NCAAs. —THE CRIMSON STAFF
Americans have resigned themselves to an inexorable fate. With a sigh and a shrug, they pull the gas pump off its handle, swipe their credit card, and cringe as the price meter climbs so fast that the dollar digit seems stuck at eight. Frustrated at their bills, they might rant to their friends, or perhaps even call their congressman...