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iraq 's oil minister arrived sunday for talks on turkey 's reduction of the euphrates river flow toward iraq and syria .


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turkey has reaffirmed its promise to downstream neighbors to share the waters of the euphrates river , cut off for one month to fill a reservoir and allow construction work , iraq 's oil minister said monday .


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the crisis came sharply into focus in mid-january when turkey blocked off much of the water in the 1 , 460-mile euphrates river that flows southward through syria and iraq to the persian gulf .


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turkey opened sluice gates of the huge ataturk dam on monday , allowing euphrates river water to flow south to syria and iraq .


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the euphrates originates in the mountains of eastern turkey and flows 1,460 miles through syria and iraq to confluence with the tigris river and persian gulf .


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the problems have included a flareup of the feud with greece , this time over the moslem turkish minority in western thrace ; protests by southern neighbors syria and iraq over turkey 's use of the euphrates river waters ; the problems of the turkish minority in bulgaria ; and a resolution pending in the u.s. senate that accuses ottoman turks of the genocide of armenians in world war i. sen. bob dole , r - kan. , sponsored the resolution and presented it tuesday .


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a conflict over the waters of the euphrates river has soured relations with syria and iraq .


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the euphrates originates in the mountains of eastern turkey and flows 1,460 miles through syria and iraq to a confluence with the tigris river that empties into the persian gulf .


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regarding the water problem , president demirel explained that the euphrates river also passes through syria and iraq .


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the us troops were leaving positions south of the euphrates river for a demilitarised zone being established by the un along the iraqi - kuwaiti border under the ceasefire that took effect last thursday .


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turkey controls the euphrates river and has plans to irrigate more than 1m hectares close to the syrian border as part of its dollars 32bn gap project .


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iraq 's anxiety follows the recent accord signed in damascus committing turkey and syria to find a 'final solution ' to the allocation of the euphrates river this year .


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ankara continues to resist the linkage between syria 's backing for the pkk and syria 's security concerns over turkish control of the euphrates river .


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one of gama 's biggest contracts to date is for a 672mw hydroelectric power dam on the euphrates river at birecik close to the syrian border .


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meanwhile , philipp holzmann of germany is negotiating terms for a hydro-electric power station on the euphrates river at birecik , in eastern turkey , near the syrian border .


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iraqi authorities have said they will build a new drinking-water processing plant in basra that will tap water from the euphrates river far north of the city .


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earliest signs of civilization in egypt on the nile river and in mesopotamia between the tigris and euphrates rivers in what is now iraq . ;


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by the fourth day of ground combat against iraq , u.s. and allied forces intended to `` seal off '' the most potent of the guard divisions , trapping them in southern iraq between kuwait and the euphrates river delta , a pentagon source said. ;


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there were no u.s. casualties in the final major battle of the war -- perhaps the largest tank battle since world war ii -- which took place along the banks of the fabled euphrates river in southern iraq . ;


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their escape toward baghdad to the west was blocked by the 24th mechanized infantry division , while retreat to the north pushed them up against the euphrates river , where months of allied bombing had cut the bridges . ;


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when the lead elements of the 101st , known as the screaming eagles , reached highway 8 near the euphrates river , the final iraqi escape route toward baghdad was teeming with armored personnel carriers , trucks , tanks and other heavy equipment -- all lumbering northward. ;


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tariq aziz told the iraqi news agency that the u.s. forces near nassiriya , a major transportation hub on the euphrates river in southern iraq , were acting in a manner contrary to a cease-fire , baghdad radio reported. ;


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in one of the first looks deep into war-ravaged southern iraq , reporters drove monday from the kuwaiti border to near the limit of the u.s. -held zone , close to the euphrates river and about 20 miles southeast of the strategic city of nasiriyah. ; refugees along the way told tales of horror , focusing on the collapse of the shiite muslim -led revolt during the past week .


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similar atrocities were reported in the euphrates river city of nasiriyah and the nearby town of suq ash shuyukh .


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similar atrocities were reported in the euphrates river city of nasiriyah and the nearby town of suq ash shuyukh .


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american tanks have driven 60 miles deeper into iraq , reaching the euphrates river , while a permanent u.s. military headquarters is prepared in bahrain. ;


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u.s. units that participated in operation desert storm currently occupy a portion of southern iraq below the euphrates river . ;


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balwanz recalled the fear he felt when his band of eight green berets , north of the euphrates river deep inside iraq , were fired on by enemy soldiers for six hours while hiding in a chest-deep canal . ;


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have been found in the ancient syrian city of mari on the euphrates river . ;


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turkey is building a dam on the euphrates river , which supplies water further downstream to syria and iraq .


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this was clearly demonstrated recently when turkey stopped the flow of the euphrates river for a month to begin filling the ataturk dam lake , the third and largest dam turkey has built on the river .


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several meters above the current level of the muddy river , birecik townsman omer suleyman runs his hand along the stone wall of the town 's medieval ulu mosque to show how high the water of the euphrates used to rise .


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gap also includes water projects on the tigris river , which flows to the east of the euphrates from turkey into iraq .


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representatives of the three nations met recently in ankara to discuss the use of euphrates river water , but no new agreements were reached .


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al-jabiri is like many basrans who are defying the iranian barrages and staying in their city after 7 -lcb- years of war .


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the low casualty rate was because most of the basrans who are toughing it out live in shelters or basements .


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some basrans , especially those in the hardest-hit central section of town , have sought shelter in nearby towns or in the city 's western outskirts .


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many basrans were caught by the latest round of shelling .


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the renewed bombardment put many basrans on the run again .


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the team from the u.n. iran-iraq military observer group was expected to return to the iranian capital monday after checking logistical needs for the peacekeepers .


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iranian troops reached within six miles of the city last spring before being driven back , and iraqis consider the city a symbol of their defense .


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there the waterway links with the khor al-zubair river that runs into the northern waters of the gulf through umm qasr , near the kuwaiti border .


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kadum said the shatt-al-basra was widened to 315 feet and its depth increased by 19 -lcb- feet .


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white , blue and pink clouds mushroomed from smoke bombs exploded on the opposite side of the river during the ceremony , as water gushed down the middle of the dam 's three derivation channels .


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turks say they need at least one month to fill the reservoir of the $ 4 billion project , the centerpiece of the massive southeast anatolia project of 15 dams and 18 hydroelectric plants to be erected on the euphrates and tigris rivers .


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one of the problems is that the sources of the region 's main rivers , the euphrates , tigris and nile , are in non- arab countries .


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shelving the water transport project may have averted a political crisis , but no simple solution is possible in a dispute over euphrates water .


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their dream was of a steamboat expedition down the uncharted euphrates river : a voyage to match the great achievements of ancient greece and rome .


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the expedition , the first full british survey of the euphrates , was to bring tragedy , as described in a new book by john guest * .


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he believed the euphrates could be a commercial route from britain to india .


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the euphrates expedition was not simply the dream of two men .


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the instrument was to be a flotilla of iron-hulled paddle-steamers that would patrol the euphrates from the anatolian mountains to the persian gulf .


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he knew that , more than 1,500 years earlier , the roman emperors trajan and julian had led flotillas of flat-bottomed craft down the euphrates as far as babylon in support of their campaigns .


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ellenborough decided there should be a feasibility study of the euphrates route .


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his diary records : 'i found that he -lrb- peacock -rrb- was deeply versed in the ancient history of the euphrates and that he had not only been the first to bring this line of communication with india forward , but that he had collected in a thick book every private notice he could find of that river , whether contained in gibbon , balbi , or any other work . '


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by late 1834 , the dream of the great river journey was about to come true .


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by the end of 1834 , the impatient chesney had named the ships tigris and euphrates , abandoned the idea of sea trials , and begun to organise the packing .


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but it steered badly in the shallow waters of the river , and chesney decided to unship the paddles and drag the hull overland in several pieces to the euphrates .


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it took several weeks for the parts of the tigris and euphrates to be dragged to port william , south of bir on the upper reaches of the river .


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the euphrates was launched on september 26 , sliding sideways down a 25ft slope .


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the weather was worsening and it became clear that a voyage down the river would not be possible during the winter .


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it set off downstream on may 4 , followed by the euphrates on may 8 .


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guest records : 'in pitch darkness , almost on its beam ends , the tigris drifted down the river with water pouring through the windows , which nobody could close .


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on june 19 1836 , 91 days after leaving bir , the euphrates steamed down the shatt -al- arab waterway .


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after a brief rest , chesney took the euphrates up the tigris to complete his survey of the two rivers .


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six years later , in 1842 , a report to a house of commons committee , based on the experiences of the euphrates , declared the river 'not well adapted for the purposes of steam navigation . '


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for chesney , the hot-headed visionary , the dream of the great river never died .


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he returned to the euphrates and become associated with abortive projects to build a railway up the valley .


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the euphrates expedition , by john s. guest , published by kegan paul international .


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the syrians ' long-term fear is that water could be used as a political and strategic weapon .


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what the syrians and iraqis are getting now : that 's free water . '


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tomorrow , mr suleyman demirel , the prime minister , will celebrate another landmark when turbines come into action for the first time on the large ataturk dam on the euphrates , producing the first kilowatt of electricity from this dollars 4bn investment .


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the public outburst from the iraqis can only further deepen the misgivings of the lenders .


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the syrians will want to use today 's talks to press the water issue , vital for 60 per cent of the country 's power generation .


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the syrians argue that under the existing protocol there is an implicit undertaking for the turks to negotiate a permanent water settlement once the reservoir is filled .


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iranian troops got within six miles of the city last year before being driven back , and iraqis consider the city a symbol of their defense .


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for many of the 8,000 christian iraqis who have settled in san diego over the years , these are excruciating times : their adopted country and their homeland may be poised to do battle .


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others do , meeting at their private el cajon club , where on friday nights they wear their own western clothing but enjoy the strains of middle eastern music and delight in the authentically dressed belly dancer .


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middle eastern dinners are served at the club , and backgammon is enjoyed among the regulars .


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there 's the infrequent crank phone call , the offhanded remark in a store , even the occasional caller to a radio talk show -- like the one on friday who suggested that local iraqis be sent to their homeland and be allowed to return as long as they brought captive americans with them .


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whatever their leanings , it is clear that the middle eastern crisis has permeated chaldean daily life , dominating conversations .


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allied commanders said the iraqis were fleeing en masse , but that it was not known how many remained in kuwait. ;


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a senior military official in washington confirmed that u.s. troops had captured an airfield near nasiriyah. ;


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-lrb- check -rrb- in a third clash , 50 republican guard soviet-made t-72 tanks were captured as they attempted to flee northward along a road near the euphrates river , the source said .


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the 24th division and 101st airborne division have moved hundreds of miles since the ground campaign began saturday to take up positions along the euphrates . ;


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to the east is former enemy iran , to the north , the swampland of the euphrates delta , and on the west , u.s. and allied forces .


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all that was left were light infantry units that had moved north of the euphrates river before they could be trapped. ;


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a tank battalion from the u.s. 1st marine division engaged the iraqis on tuesday , broke off at dark , then resumed at dawn. ; early in the day , the airport fell , and the marines swarmed in to take positions alongside the air strip . ;


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the iraqis were able to shoot down one pursuing f-16 jet . ;


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the iraqis ' precious soviet-made t-72 tanks sat defenseless on their flatbed trucks . ;


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the xviii airborne corps threw everything it had -- helicopters , light armor and armored cavalry units -- at the iraqis. ;


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`` i think we 've reached the point where the iraqis would do very well to listen very carefully to what we say and then do it , '' cheney said during interviews on all television network morning shows. ;


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asked about reports of atrocities committed by iraqis during their occupation of kuwait , the president said , `` the ones who actually perpetrated the torture will be the ones held responsible. '' ;


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elements of the 101st airborne and the 1st cavalry are moving to reclaim their most advanced positions in the euphrates river valley , said brig .


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one knowledgeable pentagon official noted that the reoccupation of the euphrates river valley territory also appears intended to correct a hastier-than-expected rearward movement by u.s. military commanders . ;


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the general called the decision by bush `` courageous , '' but he also could see possible criticism by saying historians would probably review the decision for years to come. ; interviewed by david frost for the `` talking with david frost `` program , which will be broadcast tonight on public television stations , schwarzkopf said the allied forces attacking the iraqis `` had them in a rout '' and could have continued to rain great destruction on them. ;


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in addition , the general said in the interview , major republican guard units had `` bugged out '' before the main attack by u.s. forces and crossed the euphrates river . ; had the war gone on for another 24 hours , he said , `` we could have inflicted terrible damage on them with air attacks and that sort of thing on the far side the river. '' ;


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the general said the allied forces had the iraqis `` in a rout '' and could have continued to rain great destruction on them. ;


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air force f-16s strafed and dropped bombs within 200 feet of the americans to keep the iraqis at bay .


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it was even more harrowing for the iraqis : more than 100 were killed , a defense official said. ;


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aboard rubber landing craft , the navy 's seal commandos stole within 200 yards of kuwaiti beaches held by iraqis , looking for possible amphibious landing sites . ;


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`` we 're talking approximately 35 feet , '' he said , by the time the blackhawk touched down , machine guns blazing , between the americans and the iraqis. ;


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iraqis say it was from this tree -- the tree of knowledge of good and evil -- that eve plucked the apple that brought sin and suffering to mankind .


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on a low stone wall behind adam 's tree is the plaque , in english , that tourists used to come to read : `` the holy adam tree : on this holy spot where the tigris meets the euphrates the holy tree of our father adam grew symbolic of the garden of eden on earth .


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genesis talks of a `` river that went out of eden `` and `` from thence was parted '' into four rivers and `` the fourth river is euphrates . ''


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from this eden , a visitor can look out at the two clear blue rivers meeting to form the shatt -al- arab waterway that runs on to the persian -lrb- or , as the iraqis would say , arabian -rrb- gulf .


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the banks of the tigris and the euphrates are lined with green palm trees that wave slowly in the wind .


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he also said his agency is working on converting city bus systems from diesel to natural gas or methane fuel , and perhaps will eliminate diesel buses in 10 to 12 years .


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methane is another such gas , and natural gas is almost all methane .


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`` if we went in and found the leaks and fixed them in the natural gas systems in eastern europe and the soviet union , you 'd have a very large start at reducing the contribution of methane -lrb- natural gas -rrb- to global warming , '' hogan said wednesday by telephone from washington .


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about half of global warming is caused by carbon dioxide gas from fossil fuel burning , about 20 percent is due to chemicals called chlorofluorocarbons , or cfcs , and an additional 20 percent is caused by methane , which is natural gas , rowland said .


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that means a 10 percent reduction in natural gas emissions worldwide would halt increasing atmospheric concentrations of methane and cancel its contribution to increased global warming , rowland said .


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to their delight , the mixture began producing traces of methane , the flammable ingredient of natural gas .


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during the fuel shortage of the early 1970s , the natural gas industry , through its gas research institute in chicago , started supporting research into ways to convert carbon dioxide and water to methane .


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now , when there are plentiful supplies of methane or natural gas , the gas institute has switched to finding new uses and markets for methane while continuing to support on a modest scale basic research for turning carbon dioxide and water into methane .


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natural gas , which is 90 % to 95 % methane , is too plentiful and cheap .


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it is composed mostly of sulfate aerosols that probably come from coal- and lignite-fueled power plants in east texas and petroleum industry operations on the gulf coast .


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auto pollution , oil spills and growing dependence on foreigners for fuel have helped natural gas emerge as an energy solution that 's literally lurking beneath our feet , scientists say .


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`` the saudis flare each day enough gas to fuel two-thirds of the road transport of western europe , '' says princeton university professor enoch durbin , a leading proponent of the natural gas alternative .


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despite its attractiveness , natural gas as a motor fuel has two big drawbacks .


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a car durbin converted and supplied with two natural gas tanks could go only 200 miles without a refill , for example .


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`` if you 're going to use it you have to be confined to a regular route where you can refill , '' says michael german , senior vice president of the american gas association , which represents u.s. distributors and pipelines .


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german says the 30,000 cars in the united states now running on natural gas are mainly fleet vehicles that travel regular routes .


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one remedy proposed is to equip vehicles with dual-fuel tanks , so if the natural gas runs out , the driver could switch to gasoline .


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where to store natural gas also is considered by some to be a problem .


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unlike petroleum , natural gas needs a large , leakproof storage vault or it escapes into the atmosphere .


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natural gas now flows to homes and businesses through about 1.2 million miles of underground metal pipe .


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so the system exists for getting gas from producers to service stations .


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what 's needed , scientists say , are pumps at the stations to dispense the gas into vehicles .


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ninety - three percent of the natural gas used in the united states is domestically produced and the rest comes from canada .


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about 80 percent of natural gas comes from underground gas reservoirs ; the rest is found with oil .


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some experts worry that greatly increased use of natural gas would deplete supplies and increase reliance on foreign energy suppliers , but others reject that fear .


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durbin recalls asking a geologist about the supply of natural gas .


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the department of energy estimates proven reserves of natural gas in the united states total 187.2 trillion cubic feet .


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by some reckonngs , that represents at least three centuries ' worth of supply , even if all u.s. vehicles burned natural gas instead of gasoline .


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`` there is a tremendous amount of shut-in gas that is sitting there waiting for a market or for the price to go up , which is the same thing , '' says charles andrew , an official of john s. herold & co. , an oil and gas appraisal concern .


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about a half million cars are powered by natural gas worldwide , all backyard creations .


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no auto manufacturer makes a natural gas car , but that is changing .


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the soviet union , for example , is developing a plant to mass produce natural gas-powered vehicles by 1991 .


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in the united states , the allure of natural gas has presented automakers with a catch- 22 problem .


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while diesel engine manufacturers are designing prototypes that would burn substitute fuels , natural gas is at the top of the list .


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`` they 've kept their options open but natural gas has very clean-burning fuel with no particulate matter , which is the biggest problem diesel users have , '' german says .


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`` so it makes sense to focus on natural gas over the others. ''


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several u.s. cities are now experimenting with natural gas to power municipal vehicles , largely because fleet operators realize they could save money , german says .


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a gallon equivalent of natural gas costs about 40 cents vs. about $ 1.15 for regular unleaded .


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another big advantage of natural gas is that it emits mainly water and carbon dioxide when burned .


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`` you use natural gas at home without ventilating .


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moreover , durbin and others say , natural gas does n't ignite as easily as gasoline , so in a car crash it would dissipate harmlessly instead of exploding in a dangerous fireball .


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a study paid for by oil interests concluded wednesday that natural gas heat might contribute more to the `` greenhouse effect '' warming of the earth than oil heat .


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the gas industry immediately attacked the report as flawed and biased .


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he edited and was a co-author of `` the challenge of global warming , '' a book sponsored by the natural resources defense council , an environmental group .


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ted kinne , vice president at the interstate natural gas association of america , an industry group representing pipeline companies , said the study `` is clearly biased towards oil .


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for equivalent heat output , it has long been known that oil produces about 40 percent more carbon dioxide than natural gas .


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the study said global warming from natural gas heat would exceed the global heating from oil heat if 1 percent to 2 percent of the natural gas is lost .


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abrahamson said he found that 0.13 percent of the gas is lost in production and 0.54 percent is reported `` unaccounted for '' in interstate transmission .


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but the american gas association said the unaccounted for gas in all utilities includes gas theft , meter inaccuracies and other factors in addition to leaks .


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the gas association estimated that about 0.4 percent of the gas is lost in leaks .


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the interstate natural gas association criticized the study for not taking into account the length of time the two gases will stay in the atmosphere .


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as to gas being a bigger contributor than oil if 1 per cent to 2 percent is lost , tirpak said , `` i think you 'd have to go higher than than but i ca n't really say without having studied their statements. ''


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plugging natural gas leaks in polluted eastern european and asian cities could help reduce future warming of earth 's climate by the `` greenhouse effect , '' according to a study published today .


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researchers measured natural gas concentrations in several areas .


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previous research found natural gas concentrations in earth 's atmosphere increased 1 percent annually during the 1980s , and that it takes 10 years for chemical reactions in the atmosphere to remove natural gas .


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he said reduction could be achieved by controlling leaks in natural gas valves , pipelines , compressor stations and other facilities , especially in eastern europe and asia .


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hogan said some studies estimate up to 10 percent of eastern europe 's natural gas leaks into the atmosphere because of aging , poorly maintained transmission facilities .


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leakage in the united states is less than a few percent , said george strang , vice president for engineering at southern california gas co .


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a diagram is given of various structural elements of the eastern margin , showing various eastern margin boundary factures , sites , deposits and uplifts with signs of oil and gas in subsalt deposits , identified and assumed sections lacking lower carboniferous terrigenous deposits and various tectonic stages .


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the methane-naphthene oils ' hydrocarbon composition consists mostly of carbon , hydrogen and oxygen with traces of sulfur and nitrogen .


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the gzhelian-late podolskian upper carbonate layer -lrb- cl-i -rrb- , located between seismically reflecting layers , containing mostly carbonates , with anhydrites in the northeast and terrigenous deposits in the north , has four productive gas and oil pools 20-50 m thick .


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upper carboniferous upper gas and oil pools have the best trap properties .


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oils are mostly methane-naphthene types , with sulfur , paraffin , resins and some asphalt , basically composed of carbon and hydrogen with slight amounts of oxygen and nitrogen .


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kashirian-late visean lower carbonate layer cl-ii lies at depths ranging from 1,930 m to 5,280 m between reflecting layers and is divided by nine lithologic-stratigraphic horizons , with trap seams up to 70 m thick containing productive oil and gas pools and the seams separated by impermeable carbonates .


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gas pools formed apparently due to a sharp pressure drop during the oil 's migration from lower terrigenous deposits to the higher-situated carbonates .


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oils are brownish-green , low-sulfur , slightly resinous , with paraffin and some asphalt , and basically methane-naphthene types .


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structures formed in this region by the time hydrocarbon production began should be viewed as zones of oil and gas accumulation of sygenetic pools and primary sites for oil and gas prospecting operations .


Question: what is natural gas composed of

the middle visean -tournaisian deposits ' oils are syngenetic to the surrounding rock , brownish-green , low-sulfur , with paraffin and some asphalt , and basically methane-naphthene types .


Question: what is natural gas composed of

deep-seated fractures are believed to be indicative of possible oil and gas fields , should help in future prospecting for oil pools and may also be helpful in locating new pools in cl-i and -ii layers .


Question: what is natural gas composed of

swiss chemists , with american funding , recently mixed a little carbon dioxide , the gas that gives soda its fizz , with some hydrogen and tossed in a few flakes of a metallic powder .


Question: what is natural gas composed of

the experiment , described in the british scientific journal nature , puts a new light on an area of research that has received scant attention in these days of plentiful oil and gas .


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the aim is to provide the groundwork for the day , a few decades hence , when supplies of natural gas may run low , says robert v. serauskas , assistant director for physical science at the institute .


Question: what is natural gas composed of

the experiment , funded by the gas institute , was carried out by michael gratzel and two colleagues at the ecole polytechnique federale in lausanne .


Question: what is natural gas composed of

`` it appears this is a clear-cut example of photoactivation of a catalyst with sunlight , '' says the gas institute 's mr. serauskas .


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for the gas industry , the experiment buttresses one hope .


Question: what is natural gas composed of

it 's been proposed that hydrogen gas from such water splitting would become the nation 's major fuel .


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the site is estimated to have 20 years ' worth of recoverable gas .


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while there are other plants that recover landfill gas and turn it into compressed natural gas and other products , officials of the american gas association , a washington -based industry group , agreed that ultrasystems ' plant appears to be the first for converting landfill gas into diesel motor fuel .


Question: what is the source of natural gas

methane is another such gas , and natural gas is almost all methane .


Question: what is the source of natural gas

to their delight , the mixture began producing traces of methane , the flammable ingredient of natural gas .


Question: what is the source of natural gas

during the fuel shortage of the early 1970s , the natural gas industry , through its gas research institute in chicago , started supporting research into ways to convert carbon dioxide and water to methane .


Question: what is the source of natural gas

now , when there are plentiful supplies of methane or natural gas , the gas institute has switched to finding new uses and markets for methane while continuing to support on a modest scale basic research for turning carbon dioxide and water into methane .


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natural gas , which is 90 % to 95 % methane , is too plentiful and cheap .


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a study paid for by oil interests concluded wednesday that natural gas heat might contribute more to the `` greenhouse effect '' warming of the earth than oil heat .


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the gas industry immediately attacked the report as flawed and biased .


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he edited and was a co-author of `` the challenge of global warming , '' a book sponsored by the natural resources defense council , an environmental group .


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ted kinne , vice president at the interstate natural gas association of america , an industry group representing pipeline companies , said the study `` is clearly biased towards oil .


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for equivalent heat output , it has long been known that oil produces about 40 percent more carbon dioxide than natural gas .


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the study said global warming from natural gas heat would exceed the global heating from oil heat if 1 percent to 2 percent of the natural gas is lost .


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abrahamson said he found that 0.13 percent of the gas is lost in production and 0.54 percent is reported `` unaccounted for '' in interstate transmission .


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but the american gas association said the unaccounted for gas in all utilities includes gas theft , meter inaccuracies and other factors in addition to leaks .


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the gas association estimated that about 0.4 percent of the gas is lost in leaks .


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the interstate natural gas association criticized the study for not taking into account the length of time the two gases will stay in the atmosphere .


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as to gas being a bigger contributor than oil if 1 per cent to 2 percent is lost , tirpak said , `` i think you 'd have to go higher than than but i ca n't really say without having studied their statements. ''


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swiss chemists , with american funding , recently mixed a little carbon dioxide , the gas that gives soda its fizz , with some hydrogen and tossed in a few flakes of a metallic powder .


Question: what is the source of natural gas

the experiment , described in the british scientific journal nature , puts a new light on an area of research that has received scant attention in these days of plentiful oil and gas .


Question: what is the source of natural gas

the aim is to provide the groundwork for the day , a few decades hence , when supplies of natural gas may run low , says robert v. serauskas , assistant director for physical science at the institute .


Question: what is the source of natural gas

the experiment , funded by the gas institute , was carried out by michael gratzel and two colleagues at the ecole polytechnique federale in lausanne .


Question: what is the source of natural gas

`` it appears this is a clear-cut example of photoactivation of a catalyst with sunlight , '' says the gas institute 's mr. serauskas .


Question: what is the source of natural gas

for the gas industry , the experiment buttresses one hope .


Question: what is the source of natural gas

it 's been proposed that hydrogen gas from such water splitting would become the nation 's major fuel .


Question: what is the source of natural gas

in the area of fossil fuel energies , the institute plans to continue working on research to perfect the natural gas/ methanol cycle , and at the same time promote research on methane hydrates , which are non-conventional sources of natural gas , by the electric power and gas companies .


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nuclear power is expected to become the main source of energy by the 21st century , but because of the strong anti-nuclear sentiments in japan , the institute says it will work harder to make light-water reactor technology more refined and sophisticated by trying to depict nuclear reactors as beneficial and not dangerous .


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this is the effort to find a new source of fuel by mimicking the energy cycle of plants .


Question: what is the source of natural gas

in the years since the energy crisis , there has been much talk about a `` hydrogen economy '' in which solar energy , algae , nuclear power or some other source of energy would be used to split water into its constituent hydrogen and oxygen .


Question: what french ruler was defeated at the battle of waterloo

in 1815 , napoleon bonaparte met his waterloo as british and prussian troops defeated the french forces in belgium .


Question: what french ruler was defeated at the battle of waterloo

defeated napoleon at the 1815 battle of waterloo .


Question: what french ruler was defeated at the battle of waterloo

after the duke of wellingdon defeated napoleon at waterloo in 1815 , perhaps the most famous quote about public schools was attributed to him : `` the battle of waterloo was won the playing fields of eton . ''


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the battle of waterloo is also commemorated in a number of exhibitions in belgian museums and in the farm houses that served as battlefield command posts and headquarters during the fighting .


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sunday 's battle was broadcast live on rtbf , belgium 's french-language television network .


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the 90-minute re-enactment showed soldiers firing and `` dying '' in the fields that roll toward the french border , 30 miles away .


Question: what french ruler was defeated at the battle of waterloo

he returned to mainland france on march 20 , 1815 , rounded up an army and set out to fight the allies in belgium and regain his empire , whose roots lay in the french revolution of 1789 .


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the real battle lasted a day and seemed made in hollywood : the bad guy might have won if not for the last-minute arrival of marshal gebhard bluecher 's prussian troops , who turned the tide for the allies .


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estimates of the dead at waterloo range from 12,000 to 50,000 plus 10,000 horses .


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the waterloo battlefield _ an area of 1 -lcb- by 3 miles _ was named a historic site in 1914 , and urban development is banned there .


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sigurd herlofson of the oslo company told the business daily that the french emperor considered the chair lucky .


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but there 's no need to reach as far back as waterloo .


Question: what is the distance in miles from the earth to the sun

it is 67.2 million miles from the sun , compared to the earth 's 93 million miles from the sun .


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a powerful burst of x-rays and ultraviolet radiation , which crosses the 92 million miles between earth and the sun in just eight minutes , was detected about 9 : 05 a.m .


Question: what is the distance in miles from the earth to the sun

a burst of x-rays , which crosses the nearly 93 million miles between earth and the sun in just eight minutes , was detected about 9 : 05 a.m .


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venus , the second planet from the sun , is 67 million miles away , while earth , the third planet , is 93 million miles out .


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the 814-pound satellite will not be any closer to the sun during the five-year mission than it is now on earth _ a distance of 93 million miles .


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earth is 93 million miles from the sun .


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he said the images would help scientists understand how venus was formed and might provide answers to the puzzling question of how earth and venus evolved so differently even though at the beginning of the solar system they were almost identical .


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venus , earth 's closest planetary neighbor , has a surface temperature of about 900 degrees fahrenheit , its atmosphere is almost entirely carbon dioxide and its atmospheric pressure is 90 times that of earth 's .


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another high-intensity flare spewed from the sun tuesday , but federal officials said it was not as massive as an eruption monday that interfered with a radio navigation system and some communications .


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these waves can disrupt communications on earth and trigger brilliant displays of the aurora , or polar lights .


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the solar max satellite focuses instruments on the sun to gather data for scientists .


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monday 's flare may have created a storm of geomagnetic energy that could impact the earth sometime late tuesday or early wednesday morning , said abbott .


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he said the storm is expected to be `` major to severe '' in the latitudes near both of the earth 's poles , and `` minor '' in the mid-latitudes .


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`` major to severe '' geomagnetic storms can block some radio and navigation communications between aircraft and ground stations , and can interfere with some long distance telephone service by generating an electrical charge along cables .


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the areas of earth apt to be most affected by the major to severe storm , he said , are those above 65 degrees latitude .


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geomagnetic storms also create spectacular natural light shows by energizing the earth 's magnetic fields over the north and south poles .


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bursts of solar radiation can affect satellite orbits by causing the earth 's atmosphere to heat and expand slightly .


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abbott said the solar flares erupted from a region on the sun that just rotated into view from the earth on monday .


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the area , marked by sun spots , will take about 11 more days to move across the face of solar sphere as the sun rotates .


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the fact that two flares occurred in the sun spot region indicates that it is very active and apt to spawn more eruptions , he said .


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the sun goes through phases of intense activity .


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noaa said solar telescopes recorded the flare of as a tongue flamelike particles rising some 70,000 miles from the surface of the sun .


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a magnetic wave spewed from the sun on monday during a massive solar flare was detected wednesday on earth , but federal experts said it arrived as a `` minor storm '' that should have only small effects on communications .


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he said both events originated from the solar flare that occurred on the eastern edge of the sun on monday .


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cohen said the radiation and geomagnetism from the flare were small , from the earth 's perspective , because of the angle of emission from the sun .


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the sunspot region that spawned the flare , however , is moving farther west as the sun rotates and should be in a position by monday to pose a greater radiation hazard to earth if another eruption occurs , said cohen .


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cohen said the proton event , which had been forecast for tuesday , arrived at earth later than expected because of the eastern location of the flare on the sun .


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lennard fisk , nasa 's chief scientist , said venus is known as the earth 's sister planet because it is about the same size as earth and close to the same distance from the sun , in astronomical terms .


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`` it has an atmosphere that is 90 times that of the earth .


Question: what is the distance in miles from the earth to the sun

the earth and venus , along with mercury and mars , are known as the `` inner planets '' because of their grouping nearer to the sun than the `` outer '' planets , such as jupiter , saturn and uranus .


Question: what is the distance in miles from the earth to the sun

in the beginning , it 's believed , venus and earth were near- twins in size and character .


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but while the earth went on to become a lovely , gentle world thriving with life , venus became a hellhole _ so hot that lead melts on its surface .


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with only small changes , could earth evolve into a different place ? ''


Question: what is the distance in miles from the earth to the sun

radar signals are able to penetrate the dense cloud cover that conceals venus from telescopes on earth .


Question: what is the distance in miles from the earth to the sun

all the data could help experts ponder a fundamental question : is the earth , like venus , fated to one day become a barren , lifeless world backing in superheat and bathed by acids ?


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venus also has vast mountain ranges with peaks towering higher than the earth 's mount everest .


Question: what is the distance in miles from the earth to the sun

`` knowing whether earth is a fluke or just one of the natural consequences of the evolution of a generic solar system '' will help answer such questions , said laurence soderblom of the u.s. geological survey in flagstaff , ariz .


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he said magellan also may help scientists deduce `` the probability you 're going to find earth -like planets _ and life _ somewhere else '' in the universe .


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wenzel said it will be like seeing the sun in the third dimension .


Question: what is the distance in miles from the earth to the sun

`` think of some little green man from mars who comes , lands near the equator , looks around , goes back and describes what the earth is like .


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discovery has until oct. 23 to lift off with ulysses because of the alignment of earth , the sun and jupiter , whose gravitational field will slingshot the satellite back to the sun .


Question: what is the distance in miles from the earth to the sun

in the next 83 minutes , three rocket stages boosted ulysses out of earth orbit , starting it on a roundabout , five-year mission to explore the sun 's polar regions at a cost of $ 750 million .


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yet ulysses will never get closer to the sun than when it was launched from the shuttle .


Question: what is the distance in miles from the earth to the sun

at its closest approach , ulysses will be 120 million miles from the sun .


Question: what is the distance in miles from the earth to the sun

because no spacecraft ever has studied the sun 's high latitudes , `` our present understanding of the sun could be compared to trying to make a map of the earth by flying an airplane around the equator , '' esa said in a news release .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

the seeds of the wal-mart empire were sown when sam and his brother james l. , or bud , opened the first wal-mart discount city in 1962 .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

in 1962 , sam and his brother james l. walton , opened the first wal-mart discount city .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

walton and his brother , bud , opened the first wal-mart discount city in 1962 .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

the first wal-mart discount city opened in 1962 .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

although walton built up a small chain of ben franklin variety store franchises from 1945 , it was not until 1962 that he opened his first wal-mart discount store .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

maybe it 's the immaculate rows of discounted shampoo and paper towels , or the doorside hand-pumping `` people greeters '' who make visitors feel like they 've entered a sprawling mom-and-pop corner store .


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if the 97 , 000-square foot waxahachie wal-mart is any indication of the discount chain 's operations in 26 states , it 's not hard to see why wal-mart stores inc. has staked a claim as the country 's dominant retailer , pleasing customers and sending nervous ripples into the boardrooms of competitors .


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`` as for wal-mart becoming a household word , we never think about things like that , '' david glass , president and chief operating officer , said in a telephone interview from company headquarters in bentonville , ark. `` what we want is for customers in our territories to think of us fondly. ''


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under sam walton , the company expanded in the 1970s and 1980s , making his family worth billions and vaulting wal-mart to the third -biggest u.s. retailer behind no.1 sears and second -ranked k mart corp. at 70 , sam walton remains involved .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

a visitor to a wal-mart immediately senses workers are aiming to foster a friendly image , as though trying to preserve the charm historically associated with the neighborhood shops that many retail chains now threaten .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

regular wal-mart stores attempt to provide one-stop shopping for consumers , stocking basic neccesities ranging from shoes and clothes to televisions and outdoor grills .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

three wal-mart supercenters and three hypermarts , marketing experiments that are attracting hordes of customers , offer a wider array of merchandise , such as full grocery lines .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

within the wal-mart in waxahachie , a community about 25 miles south of dallas , everything appears tidy with merchandise in its proper place , typical of wal-marts elsewhere .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

one of waxahachie 's assistant managers , millie wall , says wal-mart encourages associates to be helpful .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

`` it might be beyond what other discount stores do but i do n't think it 's beyond wal-mart , '' she says .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

`` you can find the same stuff at wal-mart that you can find at other stores but cheaper , '' says wal-mart regular cheryl starks while lunching with three of her four children at a mcdonald 's near the wal-mart in the east texas town of gilmer .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

`` the clothes we have on came from wal-mart , the shoes we have on came from wal-mart . ''


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

in the wal-mart she frequents , a 16 ounce bottle of suave balsam and protein shampoo was selling for $ 1.08 while the supermarket a few doors away in the same mall offered the same for $ 1.69 .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

four rolls of charmin toilet tissue went for 96 cents in wal-mart vs. $ 1.45 at the supermarket .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

bounty designer kitchen towels were 78 cents in wal-mart and $ 1.07 in the store nearby .


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if there 's one big criticism , it 's that local merchants _ especially small shops that ca n't buy in the volume that allows wal-mart to keep prices low _ get blown away when wal-marts move in .


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the bottom line , stone 's study shows , is that a strategy should be developed `` for existing merchants so that they may better co-exist in a wal-mart environment. ''


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

wall streeters praise wal-mart , especially the chain 's application of computer technology to most routine retailing tasks , including inventory control .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

the past decade is the best evidence of wal-mart 's phenomenal growth .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

as of jan. 31 , the company ran 1,259 wal-mart stores , 105 sam 's wholesale clubs _ outlets for shoppers buying in bulk _ and about two dozen other retail operations .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

at the start of 1979 , wal-mart ran 276 stores .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

judging from wal-mart 's stock market performance , the company has faithful followers .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

one analyst estimates the price of a wal-mart share will rise to $ 49 this year from about $ 32 recently .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

`` the customer is key to the success of wal-mart .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

management is insisting that every customer be treated as a guest in wal-mart stores , '' loeb wrote .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

the store manager of the wal-mart in this community on the outskirts of dallas tells a story that gives an insight into the man considered responsible for a retailing phenomenon .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

manager don bost remembers one day last summer when a secretary telephoned from wal-mart stores inc. 's corporate headquarters in bentonville , ark. chairman sam walton was about to land at a nearby airport and the secretary asked if someone could fetch him and bring him to the de soto store .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

his example is followed by other wal-mart executives and most make a point of spending a lot of time in the field .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

everyone , from wal-mart president and chief operating officer david glass down to an hourly store worker , can readily quote the gospel according to sam , as he is called .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

he also regularly reminds wal-mart `` associates '' that hospitality to customers is crucial .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

wal-mart employees became known as associates under a company effort to prove it cared about employees , partly to thwart a union organizing effort in the late 1960s .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

the magazine has estimated that his immediate family 's stake in wal-mart stock is worth about $ 6.8 billion .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

`` sam walton is more interested in his backhand than he is in his bank account , '' says don shinkle , wal-mart spokesman .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

after serving three years in the army , he went to arkansas and opened a ben franklin five-and-dime store , eventually becoming the company 's biggest franchisee .


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bud is a senior vice president and board member of wal-mart .


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glass does n't hesitate when asked if wal-mart can flourish without sam .


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sam walton , the 71-year-old founder of the wal-mart discount chain empire , has undergone treatment for bone-marrow cancer , a company spokesman said thursday .


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walton , once the richest person in america , has received two sessions of chemotherapy and some radiation therapy since sunday for multiple myeloma , said don shinkle , a wal-mart spokesman .


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a wal-mart statement said walton was expected to recover fully from treatment he underwent in houston at m.d. anderson hospital .


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`` i feel so much better already , '' walton said in a two -page memo to wal-mart employees .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

walton has been known to drop in on local wal-mart managers with little advance notice to stay in touch with the retail business at the customer level .


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the memo also described wal-mart accomplishments during the 1980s , which walton credited to the employees of the chain 's 1,300 stores .


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based on his holdings of wal-mart stock , walton has been listed for the past several years by forbes magazine as one of the wealthiest men in the nation .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

after serving three years in the army , he went to arkansas and opened a ben franklin five-and-dime .


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wal-mart stores inc. 's visitors center opens wednesday in the same building on the downtown square where walton first opened for business on may 9 , 1950 .


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it concentrates on how the free enterprise system works and how wal-mart thrived when similar companies did n't .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

the window displays date back to the store 's opening , with simplicity patterns and johnson 's glo-coat , a box of dreft and some ivory snow .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

inside , an electronic map details the company 's 1 , 500-plus store chain today .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

aside from the other displays and presentations , the center also has a replica of sam walton 's original office at the store , including many fixtures he used 40 years ago .


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typical of the wal-mart outlook , dust bowl oklahoma is termed `` a place to grow and to dream '' in a video on the walton family .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

after a stint with j.c. penney co. and the army , he opened a ben franklin store in newport in 1945 .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

sam walton convinced bob bogle , then a public health officer , to take over management of his bentonville ben franklin store in 1955 .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

in one video , david glass , who succeeded sam walton as chief executive of wal-mart in 1988 , recalled his impressions after attending the opening of the second wal-mart discount city at harrison in 1964 .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

the first store , at rogers , opened two years earlier .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

`` i thought to myself this is absolutely the worst discount store , or retail store , i have ever seen , '' said glass , who was president of a drugstore chain at the time .


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and wal-mart vice chairman donald soderquist recalls that when walton took his idea of putting discount stores in rural areas to ben franklin headquarters in chicago , officials there `` just really did n't see a future in it. ''


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don shinkle , wal-mart 's director of corporate and public affairs , attributed wal-mart 's success to its `` associates '' _ the term for employees first coined in 1972 to stress that all wal-mart employees are partners in the company _ and to sam walton 's leadership and knack for hiring the `` right person at the right time. ''


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at the start of 1990 , wal-mart owned 1,402 stores , employed 272,000 and listed sales of $ 25.8 billion .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

sam 's wholesale club closed out the year with 123 units and wal-mart announced plans to enter the california market .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

sporting his traditional wal-mart cap and a red , white and blue employee badge bearing the name `` sam , '' the founder of the wal-mart discount chain on wednesday reopened the 5 & 10 store that started it all .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

sam walton held court from a flatbed trailer stage in a steady drizzle to formally open the wal-mart visitor center in the same building on the downtown square where walton first opened for business on may 9 , 1950 .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

inside , an electronic map details the company 's current 1 , 500-plus store chain .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

the ceremony , which attracted about 400 people and included a keynote address by gov. bill clinton , lasted less than 45 minutes after walton admonished master of ceremonies don soderquist , wal-mart 's chief operating officer , to hurry things up .


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most of the speakers were walton family members or wal-mart associates who concentrated on the company 's history .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

sam walton said wal-mart 's growth was beyond anything he expected when he opened his five-and-dime .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

`` helen and i were out of debt _ we 'd made a little money in newport -lrb- the site of his first retail store -rrb- , and we were out of debt for about six months '' when the expansions that grew into wal-mart began .


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he told of taking his wife and four children on scouting trips to potential store sites , when `` the kids would start chanting , `` dad , no more store looking. ''


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

the expansion could never have occurred , he said , if his bentonville store had not been profitable .


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the church-going son of a farmer born in 1918 near kingfisher , oklahoma , he founded a store chain which made him america 's richest man , and which , shortly before his death in 1992 , became the world 's biggest retailer .


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his company , wal-mart , made sales of dollars 55bn last year , and after walton 's death fortune magazine reported that his wife and four children held between them the second -largest fortune in the world - dollars 23.5bn .


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what is most startling about wal-mart is the speed of its growth .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

at the time of its incorporation in 1971 , wal-mart had only 38 outlets with sales of dollars 44m - not enough to earn a place in trade journal discount merchandiser 's list of the 71 biggest us discount retailers .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

within another 10 years , wal-mart had overtaken them both .


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this book attempts to fill the gap , to provide a 'scholarly account ' of the rise of wal-mart , setting it in the wider context of us retailing , and explaining how it was achieved .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

one strength the authors identify is wal-mart 's ability to copy and adapt from other retailers .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

rather , he realised the threat discounting posed to his own variety store business and studied in depth many of the us 's leading discounters of the early 1960s , including ann and hope , e j korvette , spartan 's , fed - mart , and k mart .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

walton learned from them all , but was unique in taking his discount stores into small towns of a few thousand people , where shoppers used to travelling long distances were delighted to have a cut-price store nearby selling everything they needed .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

another strength is wal-mart 's openness to technology .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

this technology helped wal-mart build one of the most efficient distribution systems of any retailer .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

but perhaps the most fundamental reason for its success , the book suggests , has been wal-mart 's streamlined and highly responsive management structure .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

district managers hold a conference call with their store managers , and before the day is out , the contents of the meeting have been communicated to all store department heads .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

another was wal-mart 's short-lived hypermart format , which proved too big even for gigantist america .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

then there was walton 's rash promise to do a 'hula dance ' on wall street if wal-mart achieved an 8 per cent pre-tax profit margin in 1984 .


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the book also covers well the debate over whether wal-mart 's impact on the economies of small us towns was positive or negative .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

moreover , it makes little attempt to predict whether wal-mart can continue its growth , and conquer the rest of the world in the way it conquered the us .


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but it seems clear from the design and innovations built into the prototype that wal-mart thinks its customers of the future will be as concerned about service as about low prices .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

upon entering the store , customers expecting the usual warehouse ambiance of discount stores will be shocked .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

with wide aisles and classy displays , it looks more like an upscale department store than a spartan discounter .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

and one of the biggest distinctions between discount and department stores -- self-service vs. full service -- is blurred at this store ; new technology provides information about products and helps customers locate them , though there appear to be a few bugs in the system .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

the new store even has some designer names typically found only at upscale department stores , such as estee lauder and calvin klein .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

unlike department stores , however , the wal-mart store has the same bargain-basement prices found in all its outlets .


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`` it 's an outstanding store , '' says david poneman , a retailing analyst at sanford c. bernstein & co. , adding that it only heightens `` the long-term trend of the discount store nipping away at the edge of the department-store franchise . ''


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though upscale department stores are n't exactly preoccupied with goings-on in rogers -lrb- population 24,000 -rrb- , they are n't dismissing wal-mart 's experimental prototype as inconsequential -- especially since the company plans to expand aggressively into big-city markets with stores of one kind or another .


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indeed , says mr. poneman , the corporate culture at wal-mart still encourages ideas that might seem downright `` wacky , '' he says , `` and a few might work . ''


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

wal-mart , long a leader in computerizing the distribution side of retailing , is putting technology in the hands of customers at this store .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

consumerscan , found throughout the store , gives customers their own bar-code scanners to check prices .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

though prices are marked on shelves , customers sometimes `` forget the price once they put it in their cart , '' says a wal-mart associate stationed near a consumerscan .


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the wal-mart arts report has a tv screen to let customers preview movies and music videos .


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a few feet away is wal-mart sound associates , which provides information about audio products .


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`` self -service stores have always been hard for customers to find information in , and wal-mart is becoming a leader in providing improved consumer information through technology , '' says sid doolittle , a chicago retail consultant and former montgomery ward & co. executive .


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the most popular gadget in the store is videocart , an information technology becoming available in supermarkets but until now not used elsewhere , according to the company that provides it .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

as customers progress through the store , information about the department at hand flashes on the video screen attached to their carts .


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it lists hundreds of product categories by department , along with a department -by- department map of the store .


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wal-mart officials wo n't comment on their experience with videocart .


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it 's far from certain that the prototype store here will become the wal-mart of the future .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

at about 125,000 square feet , it is the largest wal-mart store -lrb- 50 % bigger than most -rrb- , and much of that space is devoted to wider aisles , less cramped displays and sitting areas for customers -- features that could increase expenses and squeeze profit margins .


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and on a recent day , a customer trying to use wal-mart sound associates , the audio products guide , found its screen blank and dark -- because , hours after the store had opened , no one had plugged it in .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

finally , it is n't clear how many designer -name products wal-mart will be able to offer at other stores .


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officials of those companies say they do n't and wo n't sell their product to discounters such as wal-mart .


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Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

despite the uncertainty , the new wal-mart store gets good reviews .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

`` in the store that this one replaced , two carts could barely pass in the aisle without crashing , '' ms. oyler says .


Question: when was the first wal-mart store opened

`` the displays are as good as an upscale department store , '' says betty martin musham , a new york apparel designer touring the store after a recent visit to wal-mart 's nearby headquarters .


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maybe it 's the immaculate rows of discounted shampoo and paper towels , or the doorside hand-pumping `` people greeters '' who make visitors feel like they 've entered a sprawling mom-and-pop corner store .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

after serving three years in the army , he went to arkansas and opened a ben franklin five-and-dime store , eventually becoming the company 's biggest franchisee .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

the church-going son of a farmer born in 1918 near kingfisher , oklahoma , he founded a store chain which made him america 's richest man , and which , shortly before his death in 1992 , became the world 's biggest retailer .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

rather , he realised the threat discounting posed to his own variety store business and studied in depth many of the us 's leading discounters of the early 1960s , including ann and hope , e j korvette , spartan 's , fed - mart , and k mart .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

walton learned from them all , but was unique in taking his discount stores into small towns of a few thousand people , where shoppers used to travelling long distances were delighted to have a cut-price store nearby selling everything they needed .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

district managers hold a conference call with their store managers , and before the day is out , the contents of the meeting have been communicated to all store department heads .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

the son of an oklahoma real-estate broker , he opened the first general store in what was to become the wal-mart chain in bentonville , in the backwaters of arkansas , in 1950 , writes martin dickson .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

when the late , great sam walton was asked how he built wal-mart from one store in bentonville , arkansas , into the biggest retailer in the world he often replied by recounting how he sold satin ladies ' panties in the 1950s .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

wal-mart , based in bentonville , ark. , owns wal-mart stores , sam 's wholesale clubs , a small chain of discount pharmacies and a new , gigantic discount grocery and general merchandise store called hypermart .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

wal-mart , a discount store chain based in bentonville , ark. , previously agreed to sell the stores , in exiting the crafts business .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

kenneth e. stone , an economics professor at iowa state university , looked into the impact of wal-marts after chambers of commerce and business people expressed concern about the consequences of new wal-marts in their areas .


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glass concedes wal-marts can make big economic waves .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

he says some businesses may flee from their competitive might , but overall , the chain tends to benefit areas by drawing customers to many stores .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

this year , the company plans to open 155 wal-marts and 20 wholesale clubs .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

`` retail is energy : their saliva glands are going , their credit cards are hot , '' said michael crosson , an outside designer hired to help shape the chain 's future .


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at k-mart 's old-style store in port huron , on lake huron 60 miles north of detroit , a greeter with a rag grinned recently as he wiped melted snow from carts just in from the parking lot and pushed them toward incoming shoppers .


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in the new store , instead of a whiff of the popcorn , candy and tobacco counter of old , shoppers are greeted by gleaming floors , bright lights and wide-open spaces .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

`` it 's no longer just a bigger dime store , it 's a discount department store , '' he said of k mart .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

and like a famous gunfighter of the old west , the giant discount chain is drawing respect and fear from its new neighbors .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

the bentonville , ark. , chain , which owns 1,500 stores in 29 states , plans to open at least a dozen in north and south dakota this year .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

`` you ca n't ignore them , '' says doug nelson , who owns a small women 's clothing store in williston .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

the same study shows , however , that the store is more likely to attract shoppers from a wider area _ bringing a new batch of spendthrifts who did n't come before .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

richard stone , an economics professor who conducted the study , has given lectures in five south dakota towns awaiting wal-marts .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

`` it 's worse here , because they really do n't know what the store 's about , '' stone says .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

just ask marc feinstein , who owns a women 's clothing store in downtown aberdeen .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

aside from hiring area residents , the store gives scholarships and donates to charities .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

`` we 're just so ready for something new and exciting to happen , '' says nikki roberts , a shoe store manager .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

the troy , mich. -based nationwide chain posted a 10.4 percent may sales increase at all of its stores .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

such was the case for dayton hudson corp. , a minneapolis -based retailer that operates the target discount chain , mervyn 's and department stores .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

among department store operators : _may department stores co. reported a 9 percent sales increase for the four weeks .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

among specialty apparel retailers : _the limited inc. said total four-week sales rose 16 percent ; comparable-store sales increased 6 percent for the columbus , ohio -based chain .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

'give me a w , ' shouts a store manager , leading the pre-opening ceremony .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

in so doing , the group is starting to lay down rules for the retail sector in a way that no us chain has done before .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

'wal-mart is the biggest single influence in us retailing , ' says ms dorothy lakner , an analyst with oppenheimer , the us financial services group .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

the international spread of discount -lrb- or 'value ' -rrb- shopping , for example , is evident in the arrival of germany 's aldi group and the danish netto chain in the uk .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

in 1950 , mr sam walton , a former trainee with the j c penney retail group , lost the lease on a ben franklin -franchised variety store in newport , arkansas .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

after complex negotiating , he secured a new property in the tiny northern arkansas town of bentonville .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

here , he opened the first walton 's 5 & 10 , a small general goods store .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

whatever the merits of the argument , most observers suspect that the discount chain will win - at least , where larger suppliers are concerned .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

bentonville may just have seen the future .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

by 1991 the chain 's sales had risen to nearly dollars 44bn , making it the world 's largest retailer in terms of revenues , and the walton family probably america 's richest .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

the chain 's success stemmed both from mr walton 's personality and willingness to challenge accepted retailing orthodoxy .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

he was a frugal , modest man who worked extremely long hours from a spartan room in his bentonville headquarters but delighted in getting out of the office to tour stores and meet customers and staff , whom he insisted on calling 'associates . '


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

'wal-mart : a history of sam walton 's retail phenomenon ' by sandra s. vance and roy v. scott twayne publishers , new york , dollars 14.95 240 pages many people might be said to be the personification of the american dream ; few are better qualified for that title than sam walton .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

regional vice-presidents based at group headquarters in bentonville , arkansas , rather than in costly regional offices , are despatched every monday by aircraft to their regions , spend the week visiting stores , working with staff and managers , and return for a day-long merchandising meeting every friday .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

bentonville was where vendors traveled to try to sell the company on new products that they hoped to distribute nationally , and bentonville was where all marketing decisions were made. ;


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

since so many of our people live in or near urban areas , there is n't as big a need for guns as there is in , say , arkansas .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

kahn wanders around the vallejo store like a man on a mission .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

although it will be a continual process of fine-tuning the inventory to determine just what merchandise bay area shoppers prefer , kahn predicts that it will take about a year for the vallejo store to have made all of its major inventory adjustments , to have some assurance that there 's no demand in this relatively dry climate for brass outdoor lamps that are designed not to tarnish in moisture , or that california stores can sell $ 6 dirt dude bike team t-shirts as quickly as they land on the rack .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

at the vallejo grand opening , manager doug main said to the assembled associates : `` sam walton 's phone number is in the directory in bentonville .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

company management rarely speaks with the press , and interviews with walton have always been about as rare as an arkansas blizzard . ;


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

and today , the discounter from arkansas is moving across the golden state more or less on target .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

the retailer has been plagued by problems at its mervyn 's chain .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

it is n't clear how much the retail price of imported apparel will rise , store executives said .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

`` it is a question of how much can be passed on to consumers , '' said charles t. reice , vice president finance of chicago -based carson pirie scott & co. , whose total store sales rose 11.1 % in july .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

101.4 101.6 - 0.1 a-total u.s. store and catalog sales , excluding supermarkets , from continuing operations .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

822.7 824.8 - 0.3 a-total u.s. store and catalog sales , excluding supermarkets , from continuing operations .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

indeed , dayton hudson said its department store customers in the midwest have been buying short casual clothes as well as short career clothing .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

136.2 138.9 - 1.9 a-total u.s. store and catalog sales , excluding supermarkets , from continuing operations .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

959.3 963.6 - 0.4 a-total u.s. store and catalog sales , excluding supermarkets , from continuing operations .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

dayton hudson corp. , the minneapolis -based chain , said much of its october business `` was generated through highly promotional activity , '' particularly at its mervyn 's and dayton hudson stores .


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jeffrey feiner , an analyst at merrill lynch capital markets in new york , said october store sales showed that the `` overall retail environment remains sluggish . ''


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

`` for two weeks , we were n't selling anything on certain days , '' said mark hufford , executive vice president of o'callaghan 's inc. , an appliance store in des moines , iowa .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

`` business is going to be soft as we go forward , '' said ira mondry , executive vice president of highland superstores inc. , a consumer electronics chain based in plymouth , mich .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

by far the greatest part of the chain 's sales are items priced under $ 100 , he added .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

132.6 136.5 - 2.9 a-total u.s. store and catalog sales , excluding supermarkets , from continuing operations ; b-based on exact sales ; c-excludes sales from b. dalton bookseller , which was sold dec. 1986 ; d-includes sales of associated dry goods , acquired oct. 1986 .


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1 , 249.0 1 , 267.0 - 1.4 a-total u.s. store and catalog sales , excluding supermarkets , from continuing operations ; b-based on exact sales ; c-includes sales of associated dry goods , acquired oct. 1986 ; d-excludes sales from b. dalton bookseller , which was sold dec. 1986 .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

but that figure was considerably smaller than the chain 's 12 % increase in same-store sales for the nine months ended in october .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

212.5 180.9 + 17.5 a-total u.s. store and catalog sales , excluding supermarkets , from continuing operations .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

1 , 475.0 1 , 513.4 - 2.5 a-total u.s. store and catalog sales , excluding supermarkets , from continuing operations .


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sales of women 's and junior apparel , which are typically the most profitable categories in a store , were weakest , analysts said .


Question: what chain store is headquartered in bentonville arkansas

107.3 111.9 - 4.2 a-total u.s. store and catalog sales , excluding supermarkets , from continuing operations .


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138.2 132.3 + 4.5 a-total u.s. store and catalog sales , excluding supermarkets , from continuing operations .


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1 , 237.8 1 , 248.5 - 0.9 a-total u.s. store and catalog sales , excluding supermarkets , from continuing operations .


Question: what is relative humidity

`` relative humidity '' is the amount of moisture in the air compared to the maximum amount it can hold at that temperature .


Question: what is relative humidity

under such conditions , said pyke , a higher `` dew point '' -- a more accurate measure of moisture in the atmosphere than relative humidity -- often results .


Question: what is relative humidity

when the temperature changes even a tiny bit , the relative humidity changes , since warm air holds more moisture than cold air .


Question: what is relative humidity

pyke estimates that the dew point since orange county became more urbanized has risen two or three degrees , which would make for an increase in relative humidity of about 10 % .


Question: what is relative humidity

when that plateau -- or saturation point -- is reached depends on how much discomfort in the form of higher temperatures and humidity and pollution orange county residents are willing to live with , weather specialists say .


Question: what is relative humidity

water vapor produced from auto tailpipes also causes the humidity to rise .


Question: what currency is used in algeria

algeria , moving its tightly-controlled foreign exchange system a step towards free market economics , announced yesterday that the value of the dinar would in future be set by matching available hard currency with demand from commercial banks .


Question: what currency is used in algeria

here are some facts and figures on the maghreb in north africa : the countries and the land _ algeria , morocco , tunisia , libya and mauritania make up the maghreb , or the arab west , in north africa .


Question: what currency is used in algeria

the economy _ algeria , libya and tunisia have economies based on exports of oil and gas .


Question: what currency is used in algeria

tourism , wine and citrus fruit also are important in morocco , but the largest earner of foreign currency is the export of phosphates , worth about $ 400 million in 1986 .


Question: what currency is used in algeria

morocco and algeria fought a brief border war in 1963 , followed by a long quarrel over the western sahara .


Question: what currency is used in algeria

algeria and libya have a long-pending territorial dispute .


Question: what currency is used in algeria

to begin with , we would like you to talk to us about the economic and financial situation of algeria .


Question: what currency is used in algeria

the studies of these two organizations are taken into consideration by all the states which export raw materials , that is , industrial and advanced states or developing states such as algeria .


Question: what currency is used in algeria

for the first time since the start of the debt crisis in 1982 , algeria is officially announcing that it is unable to pay its debt service on time and guarantee a minimum level of imports to meet its food needs while continuing its other matters .


Question: what currency is used in algeria

we must also hold talks with these sides in order to reach a formula which will take into account algeria 's interests and our interests -lsb- as heard -rsb- .


Question: what currency is used in algeria

on the basis of these facts and this prescription , what room for maneuver does the government and algeria have in light of lower revenues and the collapse of oil prices ?


Question: what currency is used in algeria

in any case , algeria is an independent country and a member of the imf .


Question: what currency is used in algeria

there is no international institution which can force algeria to take measures that are not in its interests or that transcend the international relations and legal foundations which exist between our country and the imf .


Question: what currency is used in algeria

this means that algeria has total freedom for maneuver , regardless of the financial and economic difficulties which it is experiencing .


Question: what currency is used in algeria

in the end , it is for algeria to decide whether it is economically , financially , socially , and politically able to absorb the imf 's proposals and recommendations or whether these proposals are acceptable .


Question: what currency is used in algeria

algeria is totally independent of the imf regardless of its financial circumstances .


Question: what currency is used in algeria

but no doubt the issue of the national currency will be raised with the imf .