Word: drought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shoppers-in the foreseeable future. Simultaneously, farm output will rise because the Government, in a historic and long-overdue policy shift, will no longer pay farmers to hold down production. Butz warns farmers to expect shortages of fertilizers and of propane gas used to dry grains. But barring drought, blight or flood, the men and women on the land can look forward to an even fatter harvest and richer incomes next year...
...Crimson's amazing scoring drought was extended to a mind-boggling 190 minutes on Wednesday after a poorly-played 0-0 standoff at Williams, and if somebody doesn't start putting the ball into the net soon Harvard may find itself sliding past the Lions into the Ivy basement...
...expedition, led by Hans Guggenheim, a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will try to solve the acute water shortage caused by a five-year drought by constructing water storage systems within the framework of traditional Mali technology, Guggenheim said...
...Harvard Mr. Naturals who have sat through two unfruitful years of Resticball, the dialogue above is becoming increasingly significant. After all, when Joe Restic succeeded John Yovicsin as head football coach, the event was heralded as an innovative rain after the 14-year drought of Yovvy's straight-laced and conservative football style...
Though rain has finally come, the six-year drought has hit some of these countries so hard that it will take them an estimated ten years to get back to their gross-national-product levels of two years ago. "Even with good rains," says FAO Spokesman George Dorsey, "there is bound to be a shortfall in this year's harvest. Some farmers, driven off their lands when wells went dry, did not return in time for this year's planting. Others ate their seeds to survive." In Mali alone, the government reports that 250,000 nomads have lost...