Safety aside, the dam upstream from Dujiangyan is the staging post for rescuers heading toward the epicenter.
Farmers in the Jiaxing area of Zhejiang province, upstream from Shanghai, have denied dumping the pigs in rivers.
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The lake is located in Percy Quinn State Park, about 25 miles upstream from the town of Kentwood, La.
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About 20 miles upstream from the dam, residents of Miaohe village are being resettled following a major landslide in April.
Middletown Mayor Robert Reid still keeps a working Geiger counter in his office, a few miles upstream from the plant.
In fact, just upstream from where the Detroit River International Crossing is to be built, stands the Ambassador Bridge completed in 1929.
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Just upstream from modern day Brazzaville city are the huge "cataracts" - rocks which, for millenia, have stopped river boats passing this point.
We're about 2, 000 miles upstream from the Atlantic Ocean and more than 600 miles past Kisingani, the last significant city on the river.
Some were found 50 miles upstream from known spawning areas.
Exxon Mobil and Chevron, which can derive earnings from upstream, downstream, and even chemicals.
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An initial investigation suggested that the duck corpses had originated from upstream and were not dumped by local Pengshan farmers, he said.
The sources noted that Apple plans to launch at least four upgraded MacBook Pros as well as an iMac that features a new panel size and a price point for the mainstream market, it says, citing sources from upstream component makers.
Adobe gets its revenues at the upstream end--from the programmers and graphic designers who create the content that plays on Flash players.
Unlike its other Shah Deniz II partners, the British oil major has made it a personal mission to get the best possible terms they can from any upstream developments.
Representatives of large, sophisticated companies that have been actively working to implement the expected requirements spoke eloquently at an October 2011 SEC Roundtable discussion of the complexity of their supply chains and the difficulty in obtaining solid information from their upstream suppliers on the origins of common, commodity metals like tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold in purchased products and components.
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It's not unprecedented, and there's no current threat to water supplies, but officials are prepared to start building an underwater barrier to block the denser saltwater from moving further upstream, Corps spokesman Ricky Boyett said Friday.
But in the developing world, Samsung is the phone of choice, according to a new report from mobile marketing firm Upstream.
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The third major catalyst will be additional insight into the state of the industry from earnings releases and calls from both competitors and upstream rig operators.
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But scientists have detected Asian carp DNA in dozens of water samples collected farther upstream, some just a few miles from Lake Michigan.
Reports suggest the dead pigs may have been dumped from pig farms in Jiaxing, upstream of Shanghai.
Not only were they pushing capital into upstream, they have been taking it away from the downstream.
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The third biggest U.S. integrated oil company will separate its upstream oil-and-gas exploration and production division from its downstream refining division.
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Meteorologist Jeff Masters notes today that although the storm surge has pushed salt water from the Gulf as far as 314 miles upstream, all the rain expected to fall north of New Orleans in the coming days will help raise near record-low water levels on the river and flush the salt water back out.
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Farther upstream, Thames Executive Charters runs eight commuter trips a day from Putney and Chelsea to Blackfriars (and uses its boats for tours and parties too).
This consists, first, of paying too much attention to the upstream development of new inventions and technologies by scientists and engineers, and too little to the downstream process of turning these inventions into products that tempt people to part with their money, and, second, of the belief that national leadership in upstream activities is the same thing as leadership in generating economic value from innovation.
Crew is well equipped to swim upstream, given its recent turnaround under CEO Mickey Drexler , a veteran from Gap, who took the reins in 2003.
As an upstream state, it believes it is the rightful owner of all water flowing from its territory and is doggedly seeking payment for the water used by Uzbekistan.
Water quality issues also create risk for companies, from stricter pollution standards on their own effluent to other entities polluting water upstream, requiring them to clean up water prior to use.
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