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Other nuclear issues were on the ballots in several states. In Massachusetts, voters backed a proposal that would require a referendum before any new low-level nuclear-waste site or power plant could be established. But nuclear power, a whipping boy in recent years, fared well in Maine, which rejected a measure that would have closed down the state's only functioning nuclear-power plant. Idaho voters, meanwhile, required the legislature to seek voter approval before endorsing construction of nuclear-power facilities...
...cement went into the construction, enough to build eight medium-size Brazilian cities. The dam's 18 turbines, weighing 300 tons apiece, are so large that the Symphony Orchestra of Brazil once managed to stage a performance inside one of them as it traveled to the dam site. Itaipu's reservoir has submerged more than 563 sq. mi. of tropical forests and farm land, and also drowned one of South America's most impressive natural cataracts, Sete Quedas. As gargantuan as Itaipu's physical dimensions is its potential output of 12,600 megawatts. That is twice...
...shattered western section. Every day dozens of bulldozers clear away rubble, and convoys of trucks cart off debris. Shell craters have been filled, sidewalks repaired. The result: West Beirut is cleaner than at any time since the beginning of the civil war in 1975. The Corniche Mazraa, site of some of the war's heaviest shelling and once littered with broken masonry, is well groomed, and the four-lane high way to the airport has been repaved...
...Jahn's winning landmark tapers to a large pinnacle topped by a spire. The corners surge to the top in five stepped leaps. The pinnacle will contain an observation deck and a rooftop restaurant. The building, turned 45° on its square site, has four lOO-ft.-high corner entrances that lead to a ten-story shopping and festival arcade...
...Lorean had diverted some of the British money into a Swiss bank account or into his own separate businesses. There were even rumors, disbelieved in Belfast, that some of the money had found its way to the Irish Republican Army as protection payoffs for the 70-acre plant site...