Word: drought
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...only did the Crimson end its five-game drought, it snapped the Saints' stranglehold on victories at Bright Hockey Center. In front of a sellout crowd, Harvard picked up its first win over St. Lawrence at home since its 8-3 triumph during the 1994-95 season...
From Kenya's point of view, the children are one more threat to the multi-million-dollar-a-year tourist business, already reeling from political and ethnic instability and three years of drought. Driven by poverty and AIDS, which has alone orphaned some 900,000, Kenyan children continue to pour from rural villages into Nairobi, where street crime, according to Nairobi Central Business District Association chairman Philip Kisia, has increased in direct proportion to their numbers. Yet little has been done about them. Says Kariuki: "The government cannot deal with street kids and hopes the private sector--especially the tourism...
...streak that Harvard needed to end if it was going to contend in the playoffs, and it is hard to think of a more important game in which Suurkask could have ended that drought...
...vitamin-A deficiency, die every year and an additional 350,000 go blind. Potrykus saw his rice as the modest start of a new green revolution: bananas that wouldn't rot on the way to market; corn that could supply its own fertilizer; wheat that could thrive in drought-ridden soil...
...game strong enough, jumping out to a 14-6 lead over the first six minutes on three-pointers by Tubridy and junior point guard Jenn Monti, who was battling a sprained ankle. By halftime, the margin was still eight, 29-21, after Harvard went on a six-minute scoring drought before Peljto hit a lay-up and foul shot with 13 seconds left...