Word: aridity
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...even in junior size. Besides being a scholar, critic, translator, chess player, lepidopterist and eccentric, he is one of those relatively rare writers who in the midst of their career have been able to alter the language of their craft. Above all, he is a unique artificer in the arid world of contemporary fiction...
Like New Jersey, Chile has dense fogs, which move in from the Pacific nearly every evening. Even so, some of the country's northern areas are among the most arid in the world, receiving practically no rainfall despite their moisture-laden atmosphere. Observing that the fog collected into drops on nylon lines, scientists at the Northern University of Chile in Antofagasta constructed wood and metal frames strung with vertical strands of nylon and set them up on nearby hills. As the fog was blown through the frames by the evening wind, it formed water droplets on the strands that...
...figure that they could take over part of Fannie Mae's job if Congress would allow them to make loans above today's 75% limit when backed with private FHA-type insurance. Other proposals include lifting the self-defeating 6% interest ceiling on FHA and VA loans, arid devising European-style mortgages with interest rates that fluctuate with the money market. Few stand much chance of quick adoption...
...Galilee, the U.S. and the Soviet Union worked in tandem to avoid a catastrophic confrontation. With a Middle East cease-fire in effect and the superpowers back from the brink, the Big Two have arrived at a definitive new crossroads in world affairs. Will they revert to the arid pattern of cold-war contentiousness, or will they make a concerted effort to shape new agreements not only on the Middle East but also on a whole panoply of world problems...
...care of by the strict immigration laws that fence the country off from the dark-skinned peoples of Africa and Asia. As for the Australian Aborigines-the dark-skinned people who were already there when the first white men arrived-they have long since been driven deep into the arid outback. Hopelessly backward by the lights of European civilization, they have often been treated not as second-class citizens but as a subhuman species, a kind of ethnological curiosity...