Word: drier
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...Save the MAC!” and House Committees hold late-night emergency meetings, all may not be as it seems. Sure, Harvard’s biggest gym will soon go offline—an unexpected disappointment. This year’s tailgate will be drier than ever, and that just plain sucks. But the real problem is that each of these major changes was announced in the middle of shopping week, with nary a footnote about plans to mitigate their consequences. That’s just plain stupid.For a university that has always been damned good at marketing itself...
...less on boffo laffs. "Please don't applaud," he'd sometimes say on stage. "It breaks my rhythm." And in his last years, when he'd devote maybe an hour of his act to a recitation of his trial trials, Lenny was often still funny, but in a much drier, more serious context. (At the very end, he could be so stoned he could barely hold a mic, let alone an audience's attention.) Krassner asked Lenny how these lectures on the law squared with his old 15-25-second rules, and he replied, "I'm not a comedian...
...coming up to him and saying they only wish he was in line to become Speaker rather than House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, who disagrees with Republicans on even more issues than Hoyer. In a meeting with a handful of lawmakers and the Australian Prime Minister, California Republican David Drier, one of the closest allies to House Speaker Dennis Hastert, accidentally referred to "Speaker Pelosi," leading to chuckles from both Hastert and Pelosi...
...year was 35% below average, is still in a political clinch over a July 16 blaze that killed 11 firefighters; the opposition Popular Party claims the Socialist government didn't act quickly enough to bring the situation under control. Such political battles could intensify, since experts warn that drier conditions are here to stay. Earlier this year European Commission researchers reported that while precipitation has increased in northern Europe over the past 100 years, it has decreased by as much as 20% in parts of southern Europe and the Mediterranean countries. The combination of diminished supply and increased demand...
Natural ecosystems are the ancestral sources of species that we now manage for crop production. These evolved under climate regimes that are now being supplanted by new conditions, mostly warmer, some wetter, and some drier, and some rapidly alternating between wetter and drier. In many areas the unusually warm conditions of the last few years are bumping up against upper temperature limits for reproductive success and yield at harvest for some of our most important grain crops...