Word: drought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...continuing drought threatens to cut into this year's food production as well. To combat this danger, hundreds of thousands of urban office workers are being sent out to work in the countryside. In eastern Shansi province, which has had less than one-fourth of an inch of rain since October (compared with an average annual rainfall of 15 inches), Taiyuan Radio broadcast instructions that "manpower, material and finance be first concentrated on conservation projects that can give benefits this spring." Workers hope to sink 30,000 new wells and install nearly 50,000 pumps in other wells before...
...question that Panama needs added revenue. In the four years since Torrijos' military junta seized power, government indebtedness has doubled to $320 million, and simply servicing the debt takes 30% of the budget. Meanwhile, there has been almost no industrial investment in four years, and a severe drought has forced once self-sufficient Panamanians to import rice...
...Harvard win over Yale today would represent the first time in the Indoor Athletic Building's 43-year history that the Crimson has topped the Elis in the IAB, the end of an 11-year winless drought, and only the third win for Harvard over Yale in the last half century...
...winner of the game should go on to reign as Ivy champion, barring any losses in the last week of league play. Cornell will be shooting for an unheard of eighth straight championship, while the Crimson will be looking to end a long 10-year drought. The outcome will also have a strong influence on the ECAC Division I rankings...
Relief. Things could be worse. After all, the people of Bangladesh have suffered three consecutive years of natural or man-made disasters-a calamitous cyclone in 1970, the civil war in 1971, and a crop-crippling drought this year. That they have not experienced mass starvation is largely due to a massive inpouring of foreign relief, totaling $1.2 billion. The largest contribution, $328 million, comes from the U.S., which has given considerably more than Bangladesh's staunch political allies, India ($258 million) and the Soviet Union ($101 million). Much of the relief has been in the form of food...