Word: mono
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent court order, some of the creek's water pours over a narrow spillway and meanders seven miles down its ancient route to Mono Lake. "There's probably 5 c.f.s. flowing in there," a water activist remarks in the technical shorthand (c.f.s. meaning cubic feet per second) that characterizes California water talk...
...since 1941, most of the Mono Basin's mountain water has been disappearing from here and from three other streams down a tube that leads about 225 miles south to Los Angeles. The result, as bumper stickers, outraged postcards to the Governor, and sober scientific studies have all amply declared, is that this country's oldest lake, and one of its most unusual, is being destroyed. Even the Los Angeles department of water and power concedes that the Mono Lake ecosystem could collapse. "We feel comfortable that we have 20 years before it's going to happen," says David Babb...
Mike Vukonich has mono? Hartje will do his job. Lane MacDonald can't play at RPI? Don't worry, Hartje will switch to wing. He adapts to any situation...
...When mono struck, life became rough for Vukonich. The man who had never missed a game for any reason, injuries included, had to sit out for seven straight...
Music on TV can obviously be enhanced by stereo, but what is the point of wall-to-wall sound for more routine programming like sitcoms? "In mono broadcasts the laugh track is flat," says NBC Senior Vice President Warren Littlefield, "but in stereo it sounds more like a live audience. The audience at home comes closer to the live experience." Others see a big potential for stereo sports. "Imagine getting the Indianapolis 500 in stereo," says Dennis Lewin, senior vice president for sports production at ABC. "You'd have the feeling of the sound as the cars came around...