Word: damming
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...various projects, i.e., an amount formally promised for the construction of a specific highway, school or any other project. The second set is disbursements, or money which is actually spent on such construction. Since it may take two, three or more years to build a road or a dam, the" amount of money disbursed often lags far behind commitments...
...outside; their inbreeding was said to produce malformed children, and to all Spaniards, Las Hurdes became a synonym for decadence. In the region today, riggers are laying a power line across the valley, a hospital is being built, fruit trees grow in the irrigated fields near a power dam...
...total U.S. aid committed since 1952: $660 million). But even such an outpouring of money and technical help may not make "Arab socialism" viable. Population is rising at the rate of more than 500,000 a year, and already it is doubtful whether the huge, Soviet-financed Aswan High Dam irrigation and power project will be enough to meet the country's needs by the time it is due to be finished, around...
...sublets the place had been charging Thant $1,200 a month until the commission sued him for rent gouging and demanded $51,700 triple damages on Thant's behalf. Not at all, protested the landlord. The gouge was on the other side. Thant's cat "tore the dam ask curtains, ripped up the carpets and upholstery," and left him with $6,447 in damages. Thant's aides were skeptical...
...Much of this has the makings of dreadful humor. In The Brother, O'Brien has turned loose a memorably monstrous archetypal entrepreneur who, if he could turn a pennyworth of profit, would not only seethe a kid in its mother's milk but invite the dam to dine on it. What in the end spoils the fun is that O'Brien does not keep the goings on entirely in the cartoon world of outrageous literary parody and exaggeration where death, as Brendan Behan puts it, has lost its "sting-aling-aling." Grimy realism crops up occasionally...