Word: droughts
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...floor price for agricultural commodities does, in fact, encourage surplus production. But that surplus would disappear if there were a sufficient market for those product. It would be stupid to discourage production now, since the drought has reduced agricultural production below domestic demand for the first time in 16 years...
...recent water policy paper from the Kennedy School of Government has highlighted the essence of the problem. Our efforts have been stalled under a fragmented and directionless Reagan administration while our water difficulties have grown. The paper was researched and mainly written prior to this summer's devastating drought. However, the dry spell makes the report's message--the need for strong leadership in federal water policy--all the more timely...
...Drought-resistant varieties of grain and cattle will help these agricultural problems. The water problems, however, will only be corrected when commercial users in dry areas start paying the real price for their share of a precious public resource. In areas where clean water is hard to find, the public health must clearly have priority in water rationing. It is just this kind of policy decision that requires leadership and direction at the federal level...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.--Discovery's five astronauts, anxious to break an agonizing 32-month drought in American spaceflight, were "elated to be headed for space" yesterday as the overnight countdown began for a midmorning launch today...
...specialists like Bob Sheets, director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami, became trusted gurus, interpreting the big blow with computers. Somehow the storm seemed the violent culmination of a season in which Mother Nature has done anything but nurture, producing the hottest American summer in 50 years, a drought that parched the Midwest, forest fires that turned U.S. parks into cinders, floods that submerged large parts of Bangladesh and Sudan...