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LEVKOVICH: We're getting a signal that things are improving, but we're not about to see a torrent of growth...
...although in the past tense: "Saddam Hussein produced and possessed chemical and biological weapons, and was trying to reconstitute his nuclear weapons program," Bush said, adding that "The regime of Saddam Hussein was a grave and growing threat." But the President and his British counterpart are encountering a growing torrent of skepticism over their prewar assessments because, three months after the coalition occupied Iraq, so little evidence has emerged to back those claims. Both men found themselves referring instead to Saddam's behavior in the 1980s - Blair to Iraq's known uranium purchases from Niger back then, Bush...
...accustomed to the Washington tradition of slow leaks about political deceit that turn into a torrent as elements of the bureaucracy step over each other in the race for the exits, and then finally a scandal worthy of the suffix "-gate". Of course the imbroglio over the Bush Administration's failure to find the evidence to back its scary prewar claims about the threat to America supposedly posed by Saddam Hussein has not yet reached the point of critical mass that would leave editors scratching their heads over just what noun to put before that suffix - Iraq-gate? Saddam-gate...
...energy production, feeding around a million households. Guido Cappetti, who heads the geothermal division for Enel, Italy's giant energy provider, puts it plainly: "Larderello is like a permanently unexploded volcano." The natural - and unique - abundance of hot liquids at relatively shallow depths provides a steady and frighteningly powerful torrent of steam to the surface. This steam, which hits the earth's surface at around 200C, shoots through massive steel pipelines and into turbines to produce electricity. The concentration of conducive geological conditions has allowed Enel to turn this part of Tuscany into a laboratory for the latest technical advances...
Small-town newspapers throughout the country printed excerpts of McCarthy’s letter within 48 hours of its release, dubbing the attack “Pusey vs. McCarthy.” A torrent of editorial letters flooded publications’ mailboxes...