Word: droughts
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Peterson says that Harvard will have to contend with the national drought of young academics if it decides to expand the Faculty...
...jodhpurs, gleaming calvary boots, brass-button tunic, and sported a needle-pointed waxed mustache. He carried a bottle of Carbona cleaner with him to hold grease spots on his rakish costume to a minimum. You got to see him at Sioux City, Iowa, on a scorched tarmac in the drought years, and the thrill lasted the whole dismal summer. Turner brought along his pet lion cub Gilmore, which draped its paws over the side of the cockpit as Turner cut the switch and saluted. In a back room at the Garber Facility, Gilmore, long ago a grown lion, proudly presides...
Detroit's automakers, awash in profits for the past four years, are in a severe drought. When the Big Three last week announced their profits for the fourth quarter, the cost of their incentive programs was all too clear. While car sales dropped 20%, profits plunged much more. Ford's declined 73%, to $314 million, while General Motors' fell 50%, to $700 million. Chrysler lost $664 million, its first deficit since...
...knew we were basically embarrassed and the only thing we could do is take the next 20 minutes as a new game," said Cormier, who had never witnessed such a drought in his six years at the helm of the Dartmouth program...
...worry about being optimistic," Rotberg says, "but after a long drought, it has begun to sprinkle...