Word: reservoirs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...craze for boardsailing, for example, has obliged Soviet citizens to build their own, a process that requires the painstaking application of layers of fiber glass over a homemade frame. The materials cost about $140, and some budding capitalists sell their boards for as much as $420. At the Klyazma Reservoir, twelve miles north of Moscow, a 26-year-old graduate student in mathematics showed off his handiwork. "My first board took a month to build," he says, "but once I got the hang of it, I could do it in a week...
Mandelbaum: I agree in part with that I think there is a kind of underlying reservoir of anxiety, if you will, or the collective pvsche of the American public, about nuclear weapons....This anxiety stays beneath the surface because most people would prefer not to confront the reality of our nuclear situation. But every so often something happens that compels people to recognize the peril in which we all live...
...years later, showing the lush checkerboard farms of America's breadbasket. Now, as if through a strange reversal in time, the second image threatens to fade into the first. For in another 40 years, the territory could backslide into dust and despair. The Ogallala Aquifer, the vast underground reservoir of water that transformed much of the Great Plains into one of the richest agricultural areas in the world, is being sucked...
...takeover is attractive to Columbia, the last of Hollywood's independent studios, because it provides access to Coke's vast reservoir of cash. Those funds will allow the film producer to compete with bigger rivals like Paramount and Universal Pictures. Both of those firms have already become subsidiaries of larger corporations that can provide the financing for developing movies and TV shows...
...capacity only with the aid of a spare pump at the Fresh Pond reservior public works facility. Last week a massive electrical charge, caused by an explosion at the Rindge Towers apartment buildings in North Cambridge, blew out one of the three pumps used to bring water from the reservoir into the main system...