Word: swathe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Larderello, when five light bulbs were lit by a dynamo propelled by geothermal liquid. Nine years later, the first steam-generated power plant was built in this area - once known as Valle del Diavolo (Devil's Valley) for the boiling liquid that bubbled out of the ground. But this swath of central Tuscany is not bathing in nostalgia. It continues to produce 10% of the world's geothermal power - about 4.8 billion kW-h per year - while one-quarter of the entire Tuscan region's electricity comes from local steam energy production, feeding around a million households. Guido Cappetti...
...price tag of $75 million for a swath of riverside Boston real estate—the last major undeveloped site in the city—is a deal almost too good to be true...
Despite the mayor’s anger with the University’s announcement in 1997 that it had secretly purchased a large swath of land in Allston, Harvard’s relationship with City Hall has been mostly amicable in recent years. Since 1999, the University has worked on a strategic plan with the city to guide its future development in Allston...
...plans have their own detractors, including nuclear scientist and Pentagon adviser Sidney Drell, who says even a tiny 1-kiloton weapon exploding 50 ft. deep in rock would spew radioactivity across a wide swath of the planet. Arms-control advocates worry that possessing smaller and more precise nuclear weapons would scuttle efforts to stop worldwide proliferation. Said Senator Dianne Feinstein last week: "This Administration seems to be moving toward a military posture in which nuclear weapons are considered just like other weapons." --By Mark Thompson
...existing nuclear weapons because of the widespread carnage they would cause. But the new plans have their own detractors. They include nuclear scientist and Pentagon adviser Sidney Drell, who says that even a tiny 1-kiloton weapon exploding 15 meters deep in rock would spew radioactivity across a wide swath of the planet. Arms-control advocates worry that possessing less catastrophic nuclear weapons would scuttle efforts to stop worldwide proliferation. Said Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, last week: "This Administration seems to be moving toward a military posture in which nuclear weapons are considered just like other weapons...