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...decade-long hiring drought in the American wing of the History Department appears to have ended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scholars Trickling into History | 9/13/1989 | See Source »

...decade-long hiring drought in the American wing of the History Department appears to have ended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scholars Trickling into History | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...even longer drought in the department may also end this fall. No junior professor has been tenured from within the department in almost 20 years, and morale among untenured faculty members has traditionally been very...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scholars Trickling into History | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

State law requires control measures on infested property. But chemical spraying, the only real choice in some areas, disturbs environmentalists. They say the more effective pesticides can wipe out virtually all insects in an area and may also threaten drought-weakened wildlife. Organic farmers fear that the chemicals will taint their crops, shutting them out of a lucrative market. Yet if nothing is done soon, the problems could multiply: the maturing locusts are expected to lay more eggs in August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Minnesota: Day of the Locusts | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

...ever faced? Or if an off-duty airline pilot, who happened to be on board, had not rushed to the cockpit to assist him? Or if the 181-ft.-long aircraft had ripped apart in even a slightly different way? Or if that Sioux City cornfield had been drought baked and hard instead of rain soaked and soft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brace! Brace! Brace! | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

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