Word: drought
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...kill drought carried over into the fourth frame as Harvard went the first 13 points of the game without a kill until Schweitzer slammed one home to reduce the Crimson deficit to 10-4. Harvard closed the gap to three, 12-9, on the strength of two kills, an ace and two Eagle attack errors...
Moran’s tally marked the end of an offensive drought over a cumulative 239 minutes of play against four different teams...
Over the past two decades, though, persistent drought has forced the Arabs to move to more arable lands, straining relations with the Africans. In the late 1980s, competition for turf began to turn violent. Light arms poured into the region from neighboring Chad and the Democratic Republic of Congo, leading to occasional massacres. Hostilities simmered for more than a decade. But the spark for war came in April last year, when, following two months of occasional raids on villages, African rebels from a group calling itself the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) swept into the tumbledown airport in the town...
...more than that. Many remember Fred McGriff’s game-tying home run in the All-Star game. The National League finally ended its Midsummer Classic drought. But Montrealers—we remember the five Expo all-stars. Hill pitched two scoreless innings. Cordero threw a runner out at home. Grissom homered off Randy Johnson. Darren Fletcher caught the top of the tenth. And Moises Alou doubled home Tony Gwynn to win it in the bottom half...
...first three months of 2004, after heavy losses for the same period last year, a sign that German banks can succeed by cutting excess retail staff and pruning bad debt. Media companies like Axel Springer, publisher of Bild and Die Welt, are bouncing back from a crippling advertising drought. Companies are winning important labor concessions. Siemens just sealed deals with workers in two of its mobile-phone factories to increase the workweek from 35 to 40 hours--with no increase in pay. And DaimlerChrysler won $600 million in wage concessions from its workers after threatening to move 6,000 Mercedes...