Word: rebuilding
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...grid is a mess." Seoul estimates that building the extra generating capacity and lines needed would cost $1.7 billion, but the final price could be many times higher. Turning on the power could cause the North's dilapidated grid to melt down, so South Korea might have to rebuild that as well, at a cost of billions more...
...then there's the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado, which after its completion in 1963 not only robbed the Grand Canyon of sediment needed to rebuild sandbars and beaches but also drowned a spectacular landscape far bigger than the Hetch Hetchy Valley. Thanks to a multiyear drought that has only recently eased, the landscape has begun to re-emerge, energizing an effort by the Glen Canyon Institute to correct what conservationist David Brower called "America's most regretted environmental mistake." It's bound to be an uphill battle. The Glen Canyon Dam is part of the seven-state Colorado...
...panelists said that a massive influx of resources—including money, technology, and training—would be needed to rebuild and modernize Iraq’s universities...
Thus far, the Iraqi Reconstruction of Higher Education Commission has approved spending of $25 million to rebuild damaged buildings, the World Bank has offered a $15 million equipment grant, and the wife of the emir of Qatar has also donated $15 million to an international fund for Iraqi higher education...
...assemble in the streets. "It's the worst possible situation for a country to be in," says Francisco Tatad, a former minister and Senator who leads a civic group called Citizens Versus Corruption. "We want to be constitutional, but the constitution is no longer working. In order to rebuild it, we'll probably have to destroy it completely...