Word: drought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...saying a high unemployment rate is the fault of lazy welfare cheats. The forces putting farmers under have virtually nothing to do with their own efficiency, and everything to do with barriers to competition that would make Adam Smith very unhappy. Not only do farmers have to overcome drought, locust plagues, hail storms, and an uncontrollable international food market, but the numerous, relatively unorganized and competitive farmers also have to buy from and sell to aggregations of vast economic power in the shape of oligopilistic farm machinery companies, food processors, packagers, distributors and retailers. Worse still, all these steps...
...question of the hour is whether Massachusetts Republicans will be able to regroup over the next four years and counter-attack in 1982. As it stands now, the Republicans have been shut out of any statewide offices. For them, at least, it's going to be a long drought...
...innumerable scoring opportunities for Harvard's aggressive front line. For 30 minutes, they were unable to capitalize, despite a variety of shots and headers which either went wide or were steered clear by Rob Cole, Amherst's acrobatic goaltender. At 32:45 of the first half, the scoring drought that had devastated the Crimson for nearly seven halves of official playing time was ended...
Laos' economic plight has been complicated by natural disasters. During the summer planting this year a severe drought caused a shortfall of roughly 100,000 tons of food grain-10% of the hoped-for harvest. When the rains finally came, the Mekong and Sedone rivers deluged 30% to 40% of the rice land in Champassak, Savannakhet and Khammouane provinces...
Coach George Ford is also confused, as yesterday's alignment attests. Two attackers did not seem to be the solution to the scoring drought no matter how much the wing halfs ran. Ford has also tried a dozen combinations on the front line trying to create the elusive spark. "Something is missing," he said after the Columbia game. "But I don't know what...