The stream now carries black sediment of waste coal which eventually flows into Lake Kariba.
Then from nowhere emerged a large group of Iraqis -- an old man, several young boys and a stream of women enveloped in black chadors -- that began crossing a major intersection overlooked by Humvees.
Russia also continues to push South Stream, a Russian-backed Black Sea pipeline.
Another project which Mr Putin is determined should go ahead is Russia's South Stream gas pipeline, across the Black Sea and into the heart of the European Union.
Thanks to an incessant stream of leaks, the handset you see in black and white above had become something of an open secret.
In addition to a shrinking revenue stream from the state, another big challenge Ms. Black faces is that she'll take over just months after the state changed proficiency scores for public-school students, a move that resulted in tens of thousands more students being deemed not proficient in math and English than the year before.
Though it's pleasantly bisected by a faux running stream, with comfortable seating and towering embalmed trees (black olive, bamboo and Washingtonian palm) to gaze at, I saw no clients using it during my recent visit to the spa, perhaps because its location is a bit too public (all spa clients needing access to the changing rooms must walk around the atrium).
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But when the sub-prime mortgage market turned sour, the darling of the financial markets became the Black Hole equation, sucking money out of the universe in an unending stream.
The NHS, however, is a fiscal black hole, and, with new and ever more expensive medical technologies and drugs coming on stream, even this spending boost may not be enough.
Sipping lemon-ginger tea on the cushions of our house's rooftop pavilion, I watch the first light spangle the leaves of the poplars along the village's irrigation stream, see lambs herded into a small willow-walled corral, a woman in a black robe and orange head scarf testing her lower back after filling her buckets.
The Buckeye state also houses the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and has issued a stream of rock stars, including members of Warrant, Guns N' Roses, Nirvana, and the Black Keys.
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