Word: reservoirs
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Falling leaves, changing water temperatures and seasonal rains all contribute to changes in reservoir conditions, according to the city's statement...
Except for one old man who spends the day fishing from a canoe on the reservoir, the entire town of Hopkinton turns out for Race Day. Every able-bodied adult, it seems, directs traffic, cooks at one of the fast-food booths on the town green, or wears an official staff warm-up jacket and speaks into a walkie-talkie...
Replacing CFCs in newly built equipment, however, is only half the job. Virtually every existing refrigerator and air conditioner is a CFC reservoir. The chemicals are not a problem as long as they continue to circulate within an appliance. But if the machine is carelessly drained, junked or damaged, the CFCs can escape to attack the ozone. The real task for those countries that invested heavily in CFCs in the past is to develop systems for recovering and recycling the chemicals they have already used...
After Bush's latest foray, the President's subterranean political network in Washington sent a message: get him back up on his presidential pedestal. There remains in this nation despite hard times a huge reservoir of regard and respect for the presidency. Anyone inside or outside the White House who tampers with it diminishes himself...
...been brought to the surface. In the mind of Japan, the superpower on the other side of the Pacific is both an object of respect and envy, of emulation and repulsion, of gratitude and contempt. Despite the years of wrangling between the two nations, Japan retains a large reservoir of good feeling toward the U.S. For the Japanese, America is the foreign country, the one that is admired and imitated, the standard for measuring national success...