Word: reservoirs
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...United Way. He later explained that Catholics should not withhold funds from all United Way charities just because some of them oppose the church's teaching on abortion. Says Dan Daley, a Catholic activist who heads the lay group Chicago Call to Action: "He is building up a reservoir of trust, faith and good will so he will have a solid following when the tough questions come along...
...construction, enough to build eight medium-size Brazilian cities. The dam's 18 turbines, weighing 300 tons apiece, are so large that the Symphony Orchestra of Brazil once managed to stage a performance inside one of them as it traveled to the dam site. Itaipu's reservoir has submerged more than 563 sq. mi. of tropical forests and farm land, and also drowned one of South America's most impressive natural cataracts, Sete Quedas. As gargantuan as Itaipu's physical dimensions is its potential output of 12,600 megawatts. That is twice the power...
Such greasepaint and graven images are verboten in Wolfgang Hildesheimer's temple of the pure genius: "However much we search the reservoir of our imagination for an image whereby Mozart became real to us, we find it, strangely enough, only in the reports of his eccentricities. It is easier to visualize him making faces than walking in the door. I think only someone with no imagination can imagine him." One would like to read this as an equivalent to Mozart's A Musical Joke or dialogue from the theater of the absurd. In fact, the German-born author...
...difficult to show to the average person pictorially," says Morrill. "The beauty is in the details, not the overall look of the land." James Balog, who specializes in nature photography, was stumped at first by the arid terrain of the 280 acres near the Keyhole Reservoir in Wyoming. Then, on a hunch, he waited for nightfall, when a rising moon provided an intriguing mix of shadow and light. The result, like the five other pictures chosen for the story, shows none of the second thoughts, false starts and doubts that preceded the final image. And that is just...
Keyhole Unit. When the Bureau of Reclamation constructed the Keyhole Reservoir in 1952, it acquired a large amount of land near eastern Wyoming's Belle Fourche River. Now the bureau proposes to sell off 280 acres, most of it in scattered parcels near, not directly abutting, the reservoir. Dry and covered with sagebrush, the land might interest cattlemen looking for grazing areas, especially if it can be acquired at a bargain price. Property in the area is currently fetching $125 to $225 per acre...