Word: downstream
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...companion, munching on a hunk of Italian sausage. Indeed, very few observers care about who wins or who loses. Very few seem to know that the regatta is a series of races. Some know even less. A woman wearing a Lesley College sweatshirt and sunglasses spoke distractedly, pointing first downstream, then upstream, then across the river, "So what's the deal? The races are going this way?" And others still less--"Are we near Harvard Square...
GUASAVE, Mexico--Rescue teams searching along the San Rafael River yesterday found bodies as far as 14 miles downstream from the site of a rail disaster that killed at least 112 people, the government news agency said...
India has averted the problem by building dikes to contain the monsoon- swollen rivers, but that has merely pushed the flood problem downstream. B.M. Abbas, a former minister of flood control in the Dhaka government who favors the construction of a vast system of Himalayan dams as a long-term solution, charges that "Bangladesh is being destroyed by its neighbors...
...drought has reduced parts of the mighty Mississippi to a slow, shallow stream, stalling barge traffic amid rocks and sandbars. But as the water recedes, the river bottom emerges, providing clues to a lost past. On an ugly beach of sand and clay in Arkansas, just downstream from Memphis, archaeologists have struck what they consider gold: large chunks of riverboats built in the late 1800s and long buried in silt...
...exposed to the superdiluted solution, they apparently responded by releasing a chemical substance, as they would have if they had encountered the initial antibody solution. The effect only worked when the solution was shaken violently. Explained Benveniste: "It's like agitating a car key in the river, going miles downstream, extracting a few drops of water, and then starting one's car with the water." Benveniste was comfortable with his findings but openly admitted that he could not explain the strange goings...