Word: blow
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Susanne Malveaux '89 is applying for the Luce fellowship, which must be turned in today for house nomination. She said she feels pressured "only in the sense that I waited until the last minute to get my application finished. I've had to blow off most of my classes this week to meet the deadline." She added that she had stayed up late several nights to finish her application...
...significant act of his tenure has been his decision to pull the Soviet army out of Afghanistan. To hear some enthusiasts for the Reagan Doctrine tell it, Gorbachev was merely yielding to vigorous and effective containment: the U.S. gave Stinger missiles to the Afghan freedom fighters, enabling them to blow enough Soviet helicopters out of the sky for the pragmatic new man in the Kremlin to order a tactical retreat...
Gilbert blew Mike and George off the front pages, as its record dimensions and ominous approach dominated news reports. Overnight, specialists like Bob Sheets, director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami, became trusted gurus, interpreting the big blow with computers. Somehow the storm seemed the violent culmination of a season in which Mother Nature has done anything but nurture, producing the hottest American summer in 50 years, a drought that parched the Midwest, forest fires that turned U.S. parks into cinders, floods that submerged large parts of Bangladesh and Sudan...
Obviously a population explosion doesn't start hurricanes to form in the Carribbean, or natural floods in Bangladesh. But it does mean that when those things happen, they affect more people who are living in more densely populated areas. The days when a huge storm could develop, blow and dissipate without affecting a soul are long since gone. This explains how we can keep hearing about "worst-ever" disasters--if Jamaica or the coast of Texas are twice the population of what they were the last time a storm the size of Gilbert hit, then twice as many people will...
...most crippling long-term blow to Bangladesh could be the massive damage to its roads, railways, bridges, dikes and buildings. With 17 years of hard-won development all but obliterated, Ershad said grimly, "It is not possible to survive like this. Whatever we have built, most of it is gone. It will take millions and millions of dollars, even billions, to repair the damage...