Word: drought
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Boston has suffered a drought since 1918, and we Sox fans still curse ourselves for bringing the curse upon us: selling Babe might have been the greatest mistake ever for the city. But Chicago has been absent from the Series for a decade longer and ostensibly for a far more ridiculous reason. The Cubs’ drought has nothing to do with management decisions. Instead, they say it’s because a popular and powerful pub owner was not allowed to bring his goat in to Wrigley Field, even though the goat had a ticket. Furious, the man pronounced...
Herschbach, whose voice will make a cameo appearance as a Nobel presenter on the Halloween episode of “The Simpsons,” drew a comparison between Harvard’s current Nobel drought and baseball...
...York City outbreak was preceded by a three-month drought, followed by a three-week heat wave in July. Major outbreaks over the past two summers—including those in 2002 in the Midwestern states of Illinois, Michigan and Ohio and in 2003 in Colorado and Nebraska—were all preceded by summer droughts and mild winters...
...Drought provides optimal conditions for the maturation of the virus in mosquitoes, namely in stagnant water, he said...
...looked back at some of the outbreaks of West Nile and it turned out that all of the big outbreaks in Europe in the nineties were related to drought,” he said...