Word: blizzards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Valentine's Day was different this year in Massachusetts: it was 96 hours long. The extension was due to Governor Michael Dukakis, who realized that the recent blizzard had left ardent suitors trapped in several feet of snow. Worse, merchants estimated that they would lose $10 million worth of sales of candy, flowers and greeting cards. So Dukakis extended the Tuesday holiday to Friday, for "spiritual as well as economic reasons." To fulfill the spirit of the thing, he sent Valentine messages to his wife Kitty all week long...
About 20 students and faculty members at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) have volunteered to help rebuild the eight Massachusetts communities declared disaster areas in the wake of this month's blizzard...
...festivities, delayed a week by the blizzard, aimed at exorcising evil spirits from the area and ensuring happiness and prosperity for the coming year...
Mother Nature provided Rockefeller with additional problems. Already worried by an exceptionally harsh winter, he was informed last January by the National Weather Service that a monster blizzard was heading toward the state, and issued a warning over the state emergency radio broadcasting system, which had never before been used. Understandably alarmed, people got into massive traffic jams and fought over bread and milk in grocery stores. But the storm never came. Ever since, it has sneeringly been referred to as "Jay's blizzard...
...computer more eagerly or saw its usefulness more quickly than the businessman. Now, 24 years after General Electric became the first company to acquire a computer, these versatile machines have become the galley slaves of capitalism. Without them, the nation's banks would be buried under the blizzard of 35 billion checks that rain down on them annually, and economists trying to project the growth of the nation's $2 trillion economy might as well use Ouija boards. In the airline industry, computers make it possible to reserve a seat on a jumbo...