Word: drought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dead media," foreign-language science-fiction and postindustrial design. And though he's a proper punk skeptic when it comes to politics--"My job is to play with nutty ideas, not grapple with serious issues"--he is truly obsessed with global warming, which this year's brutal Southwestern drought brought a bit too close to home. "Why am I living in a world where I walk onto my porch on a summer afternoon and smell the Mexican jungle on fire?" he asks, um, heatedly. "I mean, that's it--you can't talk me down from that! I'm going...
...theatrical climate where fresh ideas are seared by the tongues of bitter critics and innovative productions parched by financial drought, college theatre is a small oasis of low stakes and adequate resources. Sprung from this land, Dan Sussner '99's Richard III is college theater as it was meant to be: ambitious, edgy and most importantly, experimental. Realizing his freedom from the constraints of profit and acclaim, Sussner seizes the rare opportunity to give free reign to his ideas. Though the resulting product is rough and at times obtuse, it has a degree of innovation one hopes to see more...
...Latinos cannot just keep our eyes on the prize; we have to look down inward to our thirst for a political voice, around at the desert of the current political landscape, and across color lines to those in majority and African-American communities who can help end the drought...
...Lemen, spokesperson for the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs said the drought this summer caused the destruction of crops, power outages and killed more than...
These developments have persuaded many Wall Street analysts and investors that battered defense stocks may finally be on their way back up. "The defense-budget drought is over," says Bob Gabele, president of CDA/Investnet in Rockville, Md., which monitors trading by corporate executives in their companies' stocks. Citing such firms as Boeing, Loral and United Technologies, Gabele says, "In 20 years, I've never seen such a concentration of insider buying in defense stocks...