Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arid Pecos Valley-Trans Pecos area must get along on what it has; bringing in more water would be too expensive...
Bisaccia stands high amid the crags and chestnut trees of the Southern Apennines, 60 miles to the east of Naples. It is a small town of some 7,000 souls, and the land is poor and arid. So it has become the custom for many Bisaccesi to move elsewhere to earn their living: to Naples and to Rome, to Mexico and Brazil, and to the United States, where some 200 emigrants made their new homes in Richmond...
...moon. The Federal Government owns 87% of the whole place, rocks, rattlesnakes, Gila monsters and all, and its total population comes to 167,000 souls, only a few more than Bridgeport, Conn. It has only three industries-ranching, mining and the care and feeding of tourists. But arid Nevada has bloomed like a garden for Norman Biltz...
...Board of Geographic Names calls it "Meteor Crater" Airliners fly over it to show it to passengers, and the tourists it draws nourish a woebegone part of arid Arizona...
...Adults who drive less than 7,500 miles a year will get a 20% rate cut; parents who keep their youngsters' part-time driving down to 25% of the yearly mileage will get a 9% cut. On the other hand, young drivers who take out their own policies arid have no parental supervision will get a 30% hike in rates...