Word: aridity
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...just an ordinary woman from a ranch who wants to see the amazing agricultural development in this arid land." Thus did Lady Bird Johnson, widow of the 36th President of the U.S., describe herself at the start of a six-day visit to Israel last week. One of the first objectives for Lady Bird and daughters Lynda Robb and Luci Nugent required a two-mile hike over dirt paths through Independence Forest on the outskirts of Jerusalem. Their destination: a wooded area dedicated to Lyndon Baines Johnson, where Lady Bird planted a pine sapling and Luci watered it. The former...
...scraggly plant or an obvious fossil- would provide instant and sensational evidence that might forever change man's view of himself, his world and the universe. In fact, Sagan and Stanford University Geneticist Joshua Lederberg have suggested that large organisms could have evolved in the cold and arid environment of Mars. Because a big animal has less surface area in relation to its volume than a smaller one, and because it is from an animal's surface that heat and moisture are lost, explains Sagan, "organisms with an interest in the conservation of heat and water may select...
Still, most economists forecast that inflation by year's end will be running at about 5% to 6%. Such a rate would be modest by the standards of recent years arid would not greatly dampen consumer optimism, especially if the current expansion in personal income continues to put more money in buyers' pockets. Already the rise in consumer installment credit for the first three months of the year ($3.9 billion) tops the increase for all of 1975 ($3.7 billion...
...Face to Face is not just a case history we watch out of morbid curiosity; it is meant to tell us something about ourselves. People less repressed than Jenny are subject to similar, less easily explicable feelings of arid alienation and despair. The character of Jenny is too idiosyncratic, and one has the option of dismissing her. Bergman forces us into excruciatingly close contact with his character, but, he leaves us a loophole by means of which we can evade the larger implications of his film...
...earner's pay is less than one-twelfth of the average income of white Rhodesians, and the earnings of 90 per cent of Salisbury's employed blacks are below the $133-per-month poverty level. The remaining mass of unemployed blacks live under even more marginal conditions, populating an arid area euphemistically described as "African Tribal Lands" comprising 40 per cent of the country. Still, the living standard of even the unemployed is higher than the unemployed in many other parts of Africa, including neighboring Botswana and Mozambique...