Word: watered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been able to cope with the chilled water plant and MATEP [the Medical Area Total Energy Plant]," said Zeckhauser. "It gets harder as the week goes on, but I haven't heard any discussion [about closing down]," she said...
...know what Mort would do to those commie jerks? Blow them right out of the [same gerundive as before] water. Mort? he's just one of the greatest Americans around...
...Valdez spill. Meanwhile, late-night comics continue to rip into the skipper, and several songs about a drunken Hazelwood play on Alaskan radio stations. Not long ago, a businessman called Hazelwood to ask permission to market a novelty item called Ole Hazelwood -- a liquor bottle filled with oil and water...
Those who stay behind dwell in a Latin version of Dickensian squalor. Managua is a succession of seedy shantytowns, abandoned buildings and lots where cows, goats and horses forage. Twice a week water is cut off, and rotating power blackouts add to the capital's desolation. In the countryside some farmers live well off their own land, while a few miles down the road naked children from a dusty village drink from and relieve themselves in the same brown stream...
Another logical stepping-stone is a lunar base, which could be built by 2000, as a testing ground for technologies necessary for a Martian sojourn. In particular, astronauts would experiment with living quarters in which air and water are recycled. Inhabitants of a lunar base would also begin learning how to mine the moon for raw materials, including trapped gases and minerals, that would permit the base to become almost entirely self-sufficient and thus permanent...