Word: reservoirs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fresh Pond, which is about a ten minute run away from Harvard Square via Concord Avenue, serves as a water reservoir for all Cantabridgians, and a semisecluded track for the city's jogging population...
Government forces, meanwhile, continued to attempt forays against the leftist insurgents holed up in remote areas. Last week skirmishes took place around the town of Suchitoto, where the guerrillas have cut off the water supply and isolated townspeople from a nearby reservoir. National Guard escorts now accompany water trucks to the town; one truck was blown up last week and its driver killed. Ironically, the guerrilla-induced water shortage has transformed the government forces in Suchitoto into local heroes-hardly the tactics recommended in the guerrilla warfare handbook...
...Structure has reservoir on top which collects rain water...
...free from that tendency. If she is not one of the great formal innovators of modern sculpture-and her contribution to its syntax cannot fairly be compared with Picasso's, Tatlin's, Brancusi's or even David Smith's-she has a very deep reservoir of feeling that has infused her art and saves it from looking arid or repetitious. As a sculptor of feeling, her only peer among living American artists is Isamu Noguchi. In a time of short careers and small careerists, in a commercialized art world strewn with cultural ghosts and aesthetic trivia...
...mind open to argument, but adds candidly that Reagan has difficulty seeing the connections between related problems and goals. An aide who is much closer to Reagan personally says, "He isn't dumb, but sometimes he has a lazy brain. He reads something, and it goes into the reservoir he has up there without checking. It comes out when he turns the spigot...