Word: drought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...game opened with a scoring drought, and after the first six minutes the Tufts five held a tenuous 1-0 lead. With two minutes left in the opening stanza, the Jumbos had stretched the margin to six points. But in a sign of things to come, the Crimson picked up the pace, and in the waning moments of the half, closed to within two points. Kathy Fulton knotted the score at intermission with a forty foot bomb at the buzzer...
...Most observers agree that these matters are of no great interest to the majority of India's 600 million people, who are more concerned about the fact that the government has completely halted inflation (down from 31% in September 1974) and that India's three-year-old drought has ended (experts now project a bumper grain crop this fall). Indians will long debate whether Mrs. Gandhi was justified in proclaiming the emergency, but the Prime Minister has won widespread support for seizing a rare opportunity to ram through a score of social reforms...
Rick Schlosky ended the drought at 15:40 of the first half with a tally from close range. Ninety seconds later, winger Jim Wolf drilled Mark Brody's rebounded shot into the net and the romp had begun...
...army. His captors charged him with massive corruption and put out rumors-never confirmed-of a fortune totaling several billion dollars salted away in foreign banks. He was also accused of deliberately concealing-for reasons of misplaced national pride or merely personal pride-the extent of the drought and famine that killed 100,000 Ethiopians in 1973-74. Whatever the validity of the charges, they obscure the reputation of the man who in an earlier era tried desperately to bring Ethiopia into the modern world and who, toward the end of his life, became the grand old man of independent...
...customary secrecy, the Soviet Union refuses to supply accurate information about future grain needs. Last month, however, a U.S. Department of Agriculture team was allowed to examine virtually all major Soviet agricultural areas. The findings: because of sparse snowfalls that ruined much of the winter wheat and a drought that decimated the summer plantings, the Soviet grain harvest will fall roughly 25 to 30 million tons below the 215 million-ton goal. The CIA, using different sources, reportedly puts the shortfall at a stunning 50 million tons -far more grain than the Soviet Union can hope...