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  • noun Plural form of flood plain.

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  • Proposed: Internet neutrality, Open Spectrum, Free/Open Source Software, regulate Google, provide end-user control of their own content, anonymous banking; recapitalize all forms of infrastructure but wind down communities in flood plains and cities in desert, capitalize growth in The Empty Quarter.

    Robert David Steele: On the Issues from Abortion to War & Peace Robert David Steele 2010

  • Proposed: Internet neutrality, Open Spectrum, Free/Open Source Software, regulate Google, provide end-user control of their own content, anonymous banking; recapitalize all forms of infrastructure but wind down communities in flood plains and cities in desert, capitalize growth in The Empty Quarter.

    Robert David Steele: On the Issues from Abortion to War & Peace Robert David Steele 2010

  • Proposed: Internet neutrality, Open Spectrum, Free/Open Source Software, regulate Google, provide end-user control of their own content, anonymous banking; recapitalize all forms of infrastructure but wind down communities in flood plains and cities in desert, capitalize growth in The Empty Quarter.

    Robert David Steele: On the Issues from Abortion to War & Peace Robert David Steele 2010

  • Proposed: Internet neutrality, Open Spectrum, Free/Open Source Software, regulate Google, provide end-user control of their own content, anonymous banking; recapitalize all forms of infrastructure but wind down communities in flood plains and cities in desert, capitalize growth in The Empty Quarter.

    Robert David Steele: On the Issues from Abortion to War & Peace Robert David Steele 2010

  • Proposed: Internet neutrality, Open Spectrum, Free/Open Source Software, regulate Google, provide end-user control of their own content, anonymous banking; recapitalize all forms of infrastructure but wind down communities in flood plains and cities in desert, capitalize growth in The Empty Quarter.

    Robert David Steele: On the Issues from Abortion to War & Peace Robert David Steele 2010

  • Proposed: Internet neutrality, Open Spectrum, Free/Open Source Software, regulate Google, provide end-user control of their own content, anonymous banking; recapitalize all forms of infrastructure but wind down communities in flood plains and cities in desert, capitalize growth in The Empty Quarter.

    Robert David Steele: On the Issues from Abortion to War & Peace Robert David Steele 2010

  • Proposed: Internet neutrality, Open Spectrum, Free/Open Source Software, regulate Google, provide end-user control of their own content, anonymous banking; recapitalize all forms of infrastructure but wind down communities in flood plains and cities in desert, capitalize growth in The Empty Quarter.

    Robert David Steele: On the Issues from Abortion to War & Peace Robert David Steele 2010

  • Many of the slums grew up along railway beds or in flood plains, which expose residents to floods and other dangers.

    One of India's Crumbling Utopias 2009

  • Many of the slums are located along railway beds or in flood plains, exposing residents to floods and other dangers.

    Megacities Threaten to Choke India 2009

  • If people want to live in flood plains, let them, but when they get flooded provide them zero ...

    The Seattle Times 2010

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