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...rich farming areas of western Minnesota, still suffering the effects of last year's drought, now have a plague to contend with: millions of crop- destroying grasshoppers are creating conditions reminiscent of the Dust Bowl 1930s...

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

...poisoning of the environment is the most pressing problem facing the world, not just the United States. You ran your campaign in the Greenhouse Summer, the summer of drought, the summer of medical wastes washing ashore on America's beaches...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Asking About The First 100 Days | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

...drought is going to prove that Quabbin water is very precious and scarce," Barrett said...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Water Risk May Affect Boston | 2/28/1989 | See Source »

Although this winter's drought has badly depleted the Quabbin, Cambridge Water Superintendent John J. Cusack, Jr. said that the lack of precipitation had not badly affected Hobbs Brook or Stony Brook...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Water Risk May Affect Boston | 2/28/1989 | See Source »

...reduce the problem of the drought, the City Council last night passed an order requiring the Water Department to implement conservation measures...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Water Risk May Affect Boston | 2/28/1989 | See Source »

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