Word: runoffs
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...Nebraska, soil runoff is still our most serious water pollutant, and dust is our No. 1 air pollutant. Through REAP, the likelihood of devastating floods has been reduced, public recreational opportunities have been provided, and the program has contributed significantly to increased productivity in agriculture, which in turn gives the American consumer relatively low food costs...
...Runoff. Though nothing would be certain until next week's second-round runoff, there was a good chance that the Gaullists would hang on to a slim majority, but it was also possible that they would be forced to seek a coalition with the small centrist parties- or even lose control of the Assembly al together to the first leftist coalition since the Popular Front of the 1930s. What ever the results, the Gaullists have al most certainly lost the license, which they had exercised for the past 15 years, to speak for all of France...
...candidates were competing for 490 seats - an average of more than six candidates per district. The full extent of the damage to the commanding 365-seat bloc that the Gaullists and their al lies carried into the election will not be known until next week's runoff.* But the pre-election opinion polls continued to suggest that Gaullist losses to the left-wing alliance of François Mitterrand's Socialists and Georges Marchais's Communists would be heavy. The final poll, published by France-Soir, gave the So cialist-Communist combine and other leftist parties...
...work crews had to mount jet aircraft engines on trucks and focus the exhaust on the ground to thaw it, and on newly poured cement to keep it from cracking. In the spring, the construction site became a sea of mud. Hundreds of yards of dikes and runoff canals had to be built. Fiat had to rely on Soviet subcontractors to supply many of the parts it needed in the early stages of production. Tires from the factory of Jaroslav wore out after no more than ten miles of testing. One Italian at the plant estimated that fully half...
Surprisingly, Brown edged into the runoff, helped considerably by an effective TV campaign and the foresight to be born with a surname that placed high on the ballot. But Bodron polled 33,000 votes, 40 per cent of the total, while Brown had only 16,000. The wide margin meant money for the runoff would be scarce...