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Pasco (păs`kō), city (1990 pop. 20,337), seat of Franklin co., SE Wash., on the Columbia River near its confluence with the Snake and Yakima rivers. It is a trade and shipping center for the Columbia basin project Columbia basin project, central Wash., a multipurpose development of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation providing irrigation, hydroelectric power, and flood control.
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. Farm products include wheat, alfalfa, potatoes, beans, grapes, and cattle. There is food processing and meatpacking; wineries and diverse manufacturing, including paper and machine parts, are also important. Pasco was an early railroad division point. With Kennewick and Richland it forms a tricity area that grew during World War II, when the Manhattan Project Manhattan Project, the wartime effort to design and build the first nuclear weapons (atomic bombs). With the discovery of fission in 1939, it became clear to scientists that certain radioactive materials could be used to make a bomb of unprecented power. U.S.
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's Hanford Works were constructed nearby. The completion (1956) of the McNary Dam extended Columbia River navigation to the mouth of the Snake River, thus making Pasco an inland port.


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Buchanan, who plays detective sidekick Peter Pascoe in BBC's Dalziel and Pascoe, will launch a programme to include live music from local bands PurplePhish, Over the Line, 4Play, Ethel Vince, Aquila, Little Sister, the Valuable Fools, David Gar-side and Falling and Laughing.
As more teenagers are kidnapped and the killer makes sadistic, taunting phone calls to the grieving family, Pascoe finds himself crossing a very dangerous line indeed.
Last night, Ms Pascoe threw down the gauntlet to city council leader Warren Bradley, inviting him to a one-to-one meeting.
 
 
 
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