Word: drought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pages; $25.95). Such travelers--an Australian father, say, and an American stepmother, joining forces to track down backpacking adult children who had disappeared months before--would soon become disoriented. Even in their car they would be dazed by heat and a pervading stench from the reeking carcasses of drought-killed cattle and sheep and the burned hulks of stranded vehicles...
...made him an icon by age 24, Travolta often took a year or two off at a time, content to fly jets while letting choice offers fly by. His only hits for an entire decade were two entries in the babbling-baby Look Who's Talking series. When the drought finally ended, he vowed to work as often as possible with A-list names. "If Dustin Hoffman wants me, yeah, I'm going," he says, his voice rising. "Mike Nichols? John Woo? Emma Thompson? Nicolas Cage? Yes, yes, yes, yes! I'm not going to say no like...
...most of the season, the Red Raiders led the league in overall scoring, but after a recent drought which has seen the team score only 11 goals in the last six games, Colgate has dropped to the level of the league's worst...
...Drought, Dust, Disaster...
...University's explanation for this penny-pinching is that they must keep the flow of endowment funds steady from year to year. Administrators fear that a large influx of money in a good year could be followed by a drought during a bear market. They add that the majority of the endowment is restricted, reserved for certain uses within the University (salaries, buildings, etc.), and so to increase the payout of funds for, say, facility construction would be inefficient in a time when the University is not looking to build...