Word: parallele
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ancient Nabataeans who once cultivated the desert, the Israelis also practice "runoff farming." But the Nabataeans used wadi beds as catch basins; the Israelis cut contoured strips and seal alternating strips with modern, petroleum-based chemicals. Water is caught in the sealed strip and runs off into the parallel strip where the crops are planted. "We have discovered little that is really new in water planning," says Yaacov Vardi, an Israeli water engineer. "Our success has been to take well-known theories, put them into action on a daily basis and show the world what to do with little water...
...syndicated column, and in recent years made big money and a big name with a brace of bestsellers about Africa in transformation. The story of the hero's public life is superficial but exciting; the details of his private life are clinical and, with the hero-author parallel continually implied, embarrassing. As for the women in his life, Ruark compares them to the African honey badger, the meanest animal in the world: "It does not go for the jugular-it goes for the groin...
...element in the vast new program is the construction of a $190 million, 70-mile-long North-South Canal that will link Hamburg to the Mittelland Canal, itself to be deepened and widened at a cost of $420 million. The new canal, running parallel to the River Elbe, will give the North Sea port direct access to the Ruhr industrial complex, is expected to generate an extra 10 million tons of freight annually after it is completed in 1972 The plan also calls for deepening and improving five other major canals...
...strong right hand, at least, was having some effect. In the wake of the U.S. Marines' victory over four veteran Viet Cong battalions at Chu Lai, the guerrillas were lying low; in fact, they have initiated no action above battalion-size in eight weeks. North of the 17th parallel, U.S. planes plastered a power plant, rail lines and bridges...
...exchange, requires firms trading on the market to publish regular and reliable financial statements, and cuts dividend taxes to 25% . Schooled in Scandal. Besides reform ing the chaotic stock market, the law will also rid Brazil by 1967 of its greatest source of recent financial scandals: the so-called parallel market, which deals in short-term, high-yield (up to 6% a month) promissory notes backed only by the reputation of the companies that issue them. Investors have snapped them up anyway, built the parallel market into a flourishing $250 million-a-year business that has supported much...