Word: damming
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...Dam Improvement...
...moments last week, the two nations agreed to embark on the biggest international hydroelectric power project in history. When completed, the power of Niagara Falls, much of it now wasted, will be almost completely harnessed to supply both countries with nearly six times as much energy as huge Hoover Dam generates; none of Niagara's scenic beauty will be spoiled...
...Canada has a similar project. The two nations would share the cost of a $31 million dam, just north of Lake Erie's outlet, to control the flow into the Niagara River...
...afternoon, Ford had been forced, into only three minor revisions in his testimony: (1) the blood clot did not dam the whole vein, but just 95 percent; (2) a patient lying on her back needs somewhat less air to cause death; and (3) although the clot meant a slow strangulation of the blood stream, it didn't disprove sudden death...
...Mountains and into the Mojave Desert. They plunged into the 90° heat of Death Valley (some drivers sweltered with the windows up lest they cut down their streamlining), spiraled up again into Las Vegas for the night. Next day, a seven-hour drive sent them rolling across Hoover Dam, and then steadily uphill into below-freezing temperatures and snow at the finish line near the Grand Canyon...