Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grandest engineering project of all time. At least a dozen northerly-bound rivers would be reversed. By channeling 37.8 billion extra cubic kilometers of water a year to the south in European Russia and 60 billion cubic kilometers in Siberia, the project would greatly increase farm output in such arid regions as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, where the high birth rate of the largely Muslim population could overtake food production...
Blessing's creative gem is the new owner, Mr. Thompson (Michael Kevin), who flies his own Learjet. Thompson is a cross between the Yankees' George Steinbrenner arid a computerized barracuda. He tells the warriors" and players he that "you wants "a can't be franchise perfect of without a perfect attitude." All the actors at Louisville are very nearly perfect, and this year they had to be. - - By T.E. Kalem
...Silicon Valley also created a style of management that is likely to have a strong impact on business in other parts of the U.S. Executives in the valley face a few acute problems because of their highly competitive environment: keeping workers satisfied in order to reduce job hopping, arid maintaining the small-company entrepreneurial spirit as firms grow larger. Experienced technicians are in short supply and can easily win large salary increases and hefty bonuses by changing employers. Executives are also fearful that as their firms expand, they will lose the ability to respond quickly to changing market conditions...
...strange as to sound like a tale told by a space traveler returning from a distant galaxy. On the more bizarre side there are the Cycloranas, the water-holding frogs of the Australian desert. Their active life is condensed to brief times when there is water in those arid wastes. After a rainstorm, they gorge themselves on insects, mate, then watch their eggs quickly develop into tadpoles. Finally, bloated with water, they burrow into the sand and wait for the next storm, which may not come for many months. In one of the series' most fascinating sequences, Attenborough digs...
...letter which we never see. They keep Nicholson brooding in the shadows like a character in film noir, relying on our memories of his explosions in other films to know that he has it in him. Real blood-and-guts American rage and confession would expose the tasteful, arid Englishness of the Reed-Bryant quarrels and love scenes (although there's a lulu of a fight when she starts beating on his pretty face). Anyway, Nicholson is mesmerizing, playing O'Neill as a smug asshole. What other actor would have the courage to give a performance this dark and disgusting...