Word: site
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government encourages private industry to develop a dam site by itself...
This is not to argue public power to the exclusion of private power. But private companies are frequently unable to utilize a dam site fully, and wasting the heritage of future generations in this respect is inexcusable. These federal projects pay for themselves through power revenues, and the experience of TVA and the Bonneville Power Administration shows that they stimulate the area's economy so it can pay a larger share of the nation's taxes...
...much radiation at one body site can cause skin conditions resembling severe burns or local cancers. Widely distributed over the body so that it penetrates much of the blood-forming marrow, excessive radiation can cause leukemia. If it strikes the gonads (ovaries or testicles), excessive radiation-i.e., by best estimate, beyond 10 roentgens*-can cause mutations in the genes, which, in turn, may mean deformities in the patient's descendants. Dangers, by sites...
Robert H. Pfeiffer, Hancock Professor of Semitic Languages and curator of the Semitic Museum, will direct a committee of scholars in attempting to reproduce the city on a site in Riverside County, Calif...
...foundation plans to raise 20 million dollars in order to support the project which, according to Pfeiffer, "will be strictly non-commercial in character with no concessions of any kind." He chose the site in California because of its similarity to the Holy Land in climate and topography...