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delta

Fourth letter of Greek. Δδ.

delta

a low triangular area of alluvial deposits where a river divides before entering a larger body of water the Mississippi River delta the Nile delta an object shaped like an equilateral triangle the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet

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The Mississippi delta has changed shape drastically over the course of its history.

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Corporal Elizabeth Laeken, former Delta.
Uh, number Delta, Sierra, 4-5-1.
Some of them came from as far away as Assam and Chittagong. and the borders of Burma. through the winding arteries of the delta.
Hurry up, he is heading towards the delta!
Bring soldiers here from the Delta? The Cataracts?
Their carriages are approaching the Delta of the Nile.
It's a plan to protect the Delta's biggest estate from irresponsibility.
The seven branches of the delta estuary of the river Ota drain and fill at their usual hour, precisely at their usual hour, with fresh water rich with fish, grey or blue, depending on the season and time of day.
People along the muddy banks no longer watch the tide slowly rise in the seven branches of the delta estuary of the river Ota.
He did 14 years Special Forces detachment Delta.
However, we would have enough fuel to ditch at weather ship Tango Delta. However, we would have enough fuel to ditch at weather ship Tango Delta grid coordinates 003 691.
We'll be lucky to reach weather ship at Tango Delta.
Sir, if the rate of loss does not increase we have a chance to reach target 384 grid coordinate 003 691 and possibly make it from there to the Tango Delta weather ship.
Now, as a climax to our programme, we bring you the Delta Rhythm Boys, who will sing a number, especially befitting this Independence Day.
Doing a government survey on lce Floe Delta.
No search for survivors on lce Floe Delta.
However, we would have enough fuel to ditch. at weather ship Tango Delta. grid coordinates 0-0-3-6-9-1.
They contain Delta 9.
Delta 9? - What's that? An invisible nerve gas which disperses 1 5 minutes after inducing complete unconsciousness for 24 hours.
And incidentally, Delta 9 nerve gas is fatal.
The delta rays?
And the delta army that was promised to me?
If you'll be less impulsive in your leadership, you'll have the delta army.
Or of the delta army?
Number Delta, Sierra, 4-5-1. Line is secure.
Sir, if the rate of loss does not increase. we have a chance to reach target 3-8-4. grid coordinate 0-0-3-6-9-1. and possibly make it from there to the Tango Delta weather ship.
So, in 1946, the company was in the Mekong delta.
Set course for Delta Vega.
We're now approaching Delta Vega.
I also know we're orbiting Delta Vega, Jim.
X- ray delta one, this is Mission Control.
Braniff, Delta, Continental.

News and current affairs

For decades, major oil companies, including Shell, ExxonMobil, and Chevron, have been producing oil in the Niger Delta, an ecologically fragile environment of freshwater swamp forests, mangroves, lowland rainforests, and coastal barrier islands.
The global companies operating in the delta have spilled oil and flared natural gas for decades, without regard for the natural environment and the communities impoverished and poisoned by their actions.
Indeed, just as BP was being hit with new criminal penalties, ExxonMobil announced yet another pipeline leak in the Niger Delta.
The environmental destruction of the delta is part of a larger saga: corrupt companies operating hand in hand with corrupt government officials.
Nigerian officials have become fabulously wealthy, owing to decades of payoffs by international companies that have plundered the delta's natural wealth.
Shell, the largest foreign operator in the Niger Delta, has been criticized repeatedly for its egregious practices and its unwillingness to be held to account.
Last year, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) issued a remarkable report on Ogoniland, a major ethnic homeland in the Niger Delta that has been at the epicenter of conflict between local communities and international oil.
Cleaning up the Niger Delta would provide the strongest possible example of a new age of accountability.
The cleanup of the Niger Delta provides an ideal opportunity for Nigeria, the oil industry, and the international community to show convincingly that a new age has dawned.
AMSTERDAM - In the Mekong Delta, farmers obtain 6-7 tons of rice per hectare in dry seasons and 4-5 tons per hectare in wet seasons, using fast-maturing rice varieties that allow up to three consecutive yields annually.
The new China is symbolized by an electronics components factory in Shenzhen in the Pearl River (Zhu Jiang) Delta.
Agriculture is the main economic activity, notably in the vast internal delta of the Niger River, home to many tribes, including the Dogon, a people remarkable for their sculpture and architecture.
Also, Nigerians need to decide whether all beneficiaries receive equal shares, or whether those who face the environmental consequences of oil exploration and production -- for example, in the Nigerian delta -- should receive more.
What he wanted to learn was how his Mekong Delta province could attract some of the foreign investment going mostly to Saigon.
If they were separate nations, five of them--the Yangtze Delta, the Northeastern Tristates area (formerly known as Manchuria), the Pearl River Delta, the Beijing-Tianjin corridor, and Shandong--would rank among Asia's ten largest economies.
The PDP did, however, fend off challenge in the oil-producing Niger Delta, President Goodluck Jonathan's home region.
Moreover, communal violence has combined with deep-seated local resentment against western oil companies to render the oil-rich delta a battlefront.
But the lethal mix of poverty, youth unemployment, and the mesmerizing spectacle of millions of petrodollars flowing out of the delta and into the pockets of the powerful, casts a long shadow.
More than 100,000 component manufacturers, mostly from Japan or Taiwan, have relocated to China's Pearl River and Yangtze River Delta regions, which always had cheap labor but now also have modern highways, port facilities, and communications links.
Armed militias in the Niger Delta are becoming bolder.
That will require repairing and improving damaged infrastructure, generating economic prosperity, running efficient social services, and taming the unrest in the delta region.
The Niger Delta region, home to most of Nigeria's oil and many of its poor people, is in turmoil.
There are also fears that the splintering of Dokubu's militias has created fertile ground in the Delta for Islamist groups.

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