Word: rivers
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JUST about everything Dow needs, it has access to on the plant. Midland's main water route, which is called a river but looks like a sewer, flows right through the area and Dow extracts 300,000,000 gallons of water a day from it. The company also puts back the same amount of used water each day, after running it through a $10 million waste cleaning plant. Dow provides the power for all its machines, in three Midland power plants which generate enough electricity to supply a city of over half a million people...
...once, McCarthy gave a brief, punchy speech. It was primarily aimed at his audience--he talked about the Pied Piper, rats running into the river, Hubert Humphrey's convenient deafness, all the standard lines to arouse those who had fought the good fight and gotten smashed...
...THIRD BANK OF THE RIVER AND OTHER STORIES, by Joao Guimaraes Rosa. Though rooted in the specifics of Brazil's wild interior, this collection of stories by the late author of The Devil to Pay in the Backlands bears an abundant crop of universal values...
Though at 33 he is already a veteran of countless brushes with death or dethronement, Jordan's King Hussein has never faced a challenge quite as taxing as the one he faces now. His country is seething with frustration over losing the fertile land of the Jordan River's West Bank. His people increasingly show their open admiration for the self-styled commando groups of Palestinian Arabs that are striking out against the occupying Israelis. Before Hussein can consider making his peace with Israel, he must leash the commandos. Last week, as the king prepared to fly back...
More and more, the commandos operate as a state within a state. They occupy the Jordan River's East Bank and defy government requests that camouflage-uniformed fedayeen stay off the streets of Amman. When a Bedouin army unit tried to disarm a group of commandos at a checkpoint outside the capital last week, Fedayeen Leader Yasser Arafat rolled up two jeeploads of commandos and threatened to shoot his way through. The army backed down...