Word: upstreams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boats racing have right of way over all other boats. Boats not racing shall not proceed upstream along any part of the course after the start of the first race of the day until the conclusion of the last race...
...After crossing the finish line, boats should immediately paddle upstream to the end of the line of buoys before turning around...
After that, it's time to get down and party! Along the riverbanks upstream from Greenwich to central London about six miles to the west, festivals and street parties will run well past dawn, with cruisers and river buses shuttling revelers between events. At the newly completed Millennium Dome, claimed to be the world's largest domed building (though it resembles a flying saucer with spikes), the evening extravaganza promises to surpass even the elaborate opening ceremonies of the Olympics. Tickets will be hard to come by, but 10,000 have been set aside for VIPs and distribution...
...This spurs the harmful overgrowth of algae and the spread of toxic microbes that can kill fish and cause human health problems, such as liver and kidney ills and amnesia. Billions of fish died along the Middle and Southern Atlantic coast in recent years because of suspected pollution from upstream sources. On a tour of the land area around Big Sur, my guide from the California Coastal Commission, Lee Otter (yes), noted as a caution and as a fact that "something always lives downstream from something else...
...Shanghai is wide, one mile across, and the boat traffic has increased exponentially: barges, tugs, dredging boats, passenger ferries, tankers, oceangoing liners and container ships. There are so many vessels that the traffic splits up, as on a highway: downstream vessels keep to the left of the stream, upstream vessels keep to the right-hand side, as the chaos of China's interior inexorably gives way to the more ordered march to prosperity of the coastal regions...