Word: droughts
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...Drought already has brought starvation to many people...
...made especially vulnerable. When oil price tripled, it was more profitable for oil companies to convert their product into gasoline for American cars than to convert it into fertilizer for India. Fertilizer capacity in that country was cut back by 40 per cent overnight. This, with an unexpected drought, and the increase of grain prices in the West, caused massive starvation. "Meanwhile," observes Senator Hatfield, "various oil producing nations are flaring 4.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas each year, ten times more than the U.S. uses annually for fertilizer production, and enough to double current world fertilizer production...
...which are basically social. As long as high profits come from coffee, sugar, tea and peanuts, nations where land is owned by a few super-rich people will not produce grains for local consumption. Even the miracle seeds themselves are a mixed blessing, being less resistant to disease and drought, and forcing poor nations to become dependent on oil, machinery and American seeds...
...Congressmen pressured the board to withdraw a similar proposal for variable interest rates (VIR), but that was before a credit drought drove home-mortgage rates to more than 10.5% last year and dried up housing construction. Unless Congress specifically votes down the idea, federally chartered savings and loans will begin offering the new VIR mortgages in about six months. Borrowers would then be able to choose either VIR or fixed rates on their mortgages...
...revolution" in order to expunge his sorrow for having flown a German airplane 30 years ago. Burden, on the other hand, would appear a familiar figure to us. He is a body artist. He believes in transcending the entanglements of maya by mortifying his flesh. And though, thanks to drought and earthquakes, this has become routine for most of us at home, in America it is considered to be a great luxury and artists who practice it are esteemed on all sides-so much so that photographs of them sell for many hundreds of dollars, which has not happened...