Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Morris said she had not noticed that the pipe's covering had become damaged until the plumber brought it to their attention...
...west coast. I think it's a place one goes for a year to revitalize oneself, but then one has to go back to the real world. The east coast is the real world--it's fast, it's competitive," Shepsle says. And as he puffs on his pipe, Shepsle certainly looks more Eastern Establishment than California Bohemian...
...past it has stalked his political and military moves; now it is tracking him into the desert, where hydrology rather than revolutionary politics has captured his interest. In a scheme, large even by colonel's standards, Libya is gearing up to mine water from beneath the Sahara Desert and pipe it hundreds of miles to the Mediterranean littoral, where there is an increasingly serious water shortage. The program is not only hugely expensive but also controversial. Says Brian Smith of the Institute of Hydrology in Wallingford, England: "The sociological and environmental risks in this undertaking are enormous...
...scheme cannot be dismissed as just a pipe dream. Last month Gaddafi opened a plant at Brega, south of Benghazi, where some of the 73-ton pipeline sections will be made. Price Bros. of Dayton, a company that is prevented by U.S. restrictions from operating in Libya, provided most of the technology to build the plant. The main contractor, the Dong-Ah Construction Co. of South Korea, is bringing in 8,000 workers to make and lay the pipes. The project seems to be unaffected by Washington's ban on U.S. exports to Libya or by President Reagan's January...
...officers and a Nicaraguan opposition journalist. A week later Heritage issued a brisk nine-page report titled Nicaragua's Terrorist Connection, copies of which were distributed by hand to all Congressmen and to targeted staff members. Heritage's pro-contra blitz was on. The reign of the pensive, passive, pipe-smoking Washington think tank is under assault. These venerable research institutions, which sprang up in the first decades of this century, are being upstaged by groups of intellectual crusaders that helped make the Republicans the party of ideas and paved the way for Ronald Reagan's election. The new "advocacy...