Word: clime
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This much is history: the new President, flying in from his warmer clime, was inaugurated in freezing Washington amid water rationing in the unseasonably warm West, crippling natural gas shortages in the Northeast, and record-breaking cold as far South as Miami. The year was 1977, and a Washington meteorologist said: "Jimmy Carter's first confrontation as President will not be with the Russians, but with the weather." Just to assure that Ronald Reagan is similarly humbled by elements beyond his control, nature has conjured up another trial by ice and drought for a new Administration...