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  • They had no power, as all their makeshift hydroelectric projects had been smashed to pieces.†  (source)
  • More than thirty years ago, my reconnaissance squad managed to sneak dozens of kilometers behind Vietnamese lines and capture a hydroelectric station under heavy guard.†  (source)
  • Hydroelectric.†  (source)
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  • You know how out West they have lots of hydroelectric power plants?†  (source)
  • No homeland I can claim as mine would blow up a struggling, distant country's hydroelectric dams and water pipes, inventing darkness and dysentery in the service of its ideals, and bury mines in every Angolan road that connected food with a hungry child.†  (source)
  • Derwent's investments include natural gas, coal, hydroelectric power, and a land development company called Colorado Sunshine, Inc., which owns or holds options on better than 500,000 acres of Colorado land.†  (source)
  • Our first mission was to secure the Mukatayin hydroelectric dam northeast of the Iraqi capital.†  (source)
  • Hard currency from trekkers and climbers, as well as grants from international relief organizations supported by trekkers and climbers, have funded schools and medical clinics, reduced infant mortality, built footbridges, and brought hydroelectric power to Nainche and other villages.†  (source)
  • Not a sound across the hospital-except for a dull, padded rumbling somewhere deep in the guts of the building, a sound that I never noticed before-a lot like the sound you hear when you're standing late at night on top of a big hydroelectric dam.†  (source)
  • The dam was important not only because it provided hydroelectric power, but because if it were allowed to flood it could have slowed military forces attacking Iraqis in the area.†  (source)
  • The rest of the year he worked without pay in Haiti, mainly doctoring peasants who had lost their land to a hydroelectric dam.†  (source)
  • This was the hydroelectric station, some miles upriver from the town.†  (source)
  • "From behind him Lieutenant Sunderstrom said, "Hydroelectric."†  (source)
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