Word: drought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...specialists like Bob Sheets, director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami, became trusted gurus, interpreting the big blow with computers. Somehow the storm seemed the violent culmination of a season in which Mother Nature has done anything but nurture, producing the hottest American summer in 50 years, a drought that parched the Midwest, forest fires that turned U.S. parks into cinders, floods that submerged large parts of Bangladesh and Sudan...
Harvard has scored but two goals this season, and UConn has tallied only four times in its last five games. The drought isn't expected to continue during today's contest...
...there has been a lot going wrong in the world. Now, I don't worry that our world is about to end, but I am interested in the number of natural disasters that have occurred in the past few months. America was gripped by the worst heat wave and drought in decades. Hurricane Gilbert, considered the most violent storm nature can produce, has caused thousands in Texas to evacuate the Gulf coast and billions of dollars worth of damage in Jamaica and Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. In Bangladesh, some 40,000 homes have been destroyed by flooding and the stagnating...
...holes in the Swiss cheese. Those cities never recovered from the 1982 recession." Gregory Baise, state secretary of transportation and a liaison between Republican Governor James Thompson and the Bush staff, concedes that among Illinois farmers, already hostile to the Administration, "there's an added kicker, the drought, and we just don't know how that will work...
Breathing Lessons, like all of Tyler's work, is about character. But it is also about marriage as fate and mystery, something that grows, for better or for worse, in flood and drought. As Tyler puts it, Ira and Maggie's union "was as steady as a tree; not even he could tell how wide and deep the roots went." If Tyler believes that men and women have different ways of feeling about family, she does not elaborate. Yet there are familiar responses: Ira is frequently bemused and annoyed by the behavior of his wife and children; Maggie is spurred...