Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talking about. Their enthusiasm would be contagious, and since the land contracts were right there on the tables, guests would impulsively sign on the dotted line. In so doing, they committed themselves to purchases ranging from a few thousand dollars to a high of $11,000 for arid half-acre homesites that had cost AMREP about $90. The buyers were usually middle-and lower-class working people; a plot at Rio Rancho was their dream. Its value would double, triple, quadruple, they were assured, but they were not allowed to take sales material away from a dinner party until they...
Questions arose over the drugs that Veterinary Dr. Alex Harthill administered, which, some charge, worsened the horse's physical condition during surgery-though perhaps any sedation might have. Harthill's presence in itself was controversial since he does not have a New York license arid had been disciplined by the Kentucky state racing commission for giving an illegal painkiller to one of the 1968 Derby contestants...
...plows and draft animals are unknown, and the unfertile limestone terrain is cultivated with hoes and machetes. When it rains in Haiti, the corn and beans flourish and the people eat. When drought comes, as it has with increasing frequency over the past two decades, crops shrivel in the arid soil and people starve. The Haitian government believes that nearly 300,000 of its citizens now face possible starvation or malnutrition...
...there was. In the 1930s, Robert A. Greene, a chemist at the University of Arizona's College of Agriculture, noted that there was a remarkable chemical similarity between jojoba-bean oil and that of the sperm whale. Other researchers confirmed his findings; the university's Office of Arid Lands Studies still publishes an occasional bulletin called Jojoba Happenings to promote cultivation of the bean. But until recently sperm-whale oil was still plentiful, and efforts to substitute jojoba oil did not attract much commercial enthusiasm...
Although the parallel between the Tsarist and 'Soviet regimes is not explicitly stated in his ambitious new book, Russia Under the Old Regime. Pipes wants this conclusion to emerge as an historical inevitability. In arid prose he tells the story of how the crown, like a spider stretching its tentacles, became the absolute source of political and economic power in Russia, making opposition from interest groups impossible for 500 years. When opposition finally did come in the late nineteenth century, the crown reacted with the slow, sharp sting of the police state. For Pipes, it seems only natural that when...