Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...report claimed the 'Bureau discriminates against Indians and other low-income minorities and benefits a handful of powerful farmers and landowners. The Bureau was created to transform arid Western lands into fertile cropland through the construction of dams and irrigation systems...
...sectors of Moslem Pakistan, painfully amputated from newly independent Hindu India in 1947 for religious reasons, have never really shared anything beyond a common religion. The tall, lightskinned Punjabi Moslems of largely arid, wheat growing West Pakistan are separated from the short, darkerskinned Bengali Moslems of tropical, rice growing East Pakistan by 1,000 Miles of Indian territory. Yet the populations of the two regions are roughly equal (the East is slightly larger, with 55 per cent of the nation's 130 million people), and hopes were high that with the help of foreign aid and expertise, the two regions...
Horned stock-sheep and cattle-are ruminants; seed passing through the alimentary canals of such animals becomes sterile. Reseeding by the usual means is not effective in our arid Western states...
ROCKY'S sorry plight typifies the state of the 16,000 wild horses, or mustangs, left in the United States, most of them barely subsisting in arid brush country in ten Western states or, like Rocky, languishing in pens. Descendants for the most part of proud Andalusian horses brought to the New World by Spanish conquistadors 400 years ago, they are the only remnants of herds that as recently as 1900 numbered in the millions. If nothing is done to protect them, conservationists warn, there may be none left...
...trucks half dead, others had their nostrils tied with baling wire, their legs broken, their eyes gouged out. Foals were left without mothers, who burst their lungs in futile attempts to escape mechanized pursuers. Some ranchers, resentful that wild horses compete with livestock for scarce food and water in arid regions, dope water holes, or simply ride out into the hills and blow the mustangs' heads off. "Sunday mustangers" use weekends to rope and ride down wild horses, often driving them to the point of exhaustion or death...