Word: excelsior
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...code name is Excelsior, and the preliminary plan alone fills a portfolio the size of a breadbox. If all goes according to plan, on Nov. 4, 1999, the Governor of Minnesota will stand on a platform in Duluth and pull a golden lanyard, opening the gates of the Superior Diversion Canal, a concrete waterway the size of the Suez. Water from Lake Superior will flood into the canal at a rate of 50 billion gal. per hour and go south...
...past, Lake Superior, which represents one-tenth of the world's supply of freshwater, was considered "inviolable," but with environmental groups in retreat and a Republican Congress favoring "wise use" of natural resources, the Excelsior project is moving full tilt toward opening...
What will Excelsior mean? It means that America's Sunbelt retirees will be able to shower, flush toilets and have lush, green lawns for decades to come...
...Will Excelsior require state or local tax abatements, so the taxpayers wind up subsidizing the whole thing...
Charles J. Bodenstab Excelsior, Minnesota...