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Offensively, Harvard's scoring balance has been impaired by the third line's four game drought, and even the potent Local Line appeared to be very tired against Dartmouth...
...Goodenow ended a four game scoring drought when a Dartmouth defenseman tipped in the rebound of a backhander from the face off circle...
Students are responding to the harsh new world of job scarcity in several ways. Most placement officers predict that a larger proportion of bachelor's degree recipients this June will elect to go on to graduate school. The recruiting drought has also produced a new institution in post-graduation planning: the breather year, during which graduates take an extended break before finding a job or continuing their education. Some temporary dropouts travel abroad, others take undemanding jobs as cab drivers, ski patrollers or bartenders to help unwind from the pressures of college life. At Dartmouth, 18% of graduating seniors...
...Gandhi, responding to Nixon, was brief and eloquent. "It has not been easy," she said, "to get away at a time when India is beleaguered. To the natural calamities of drought, flood and cyclone has been added a man-made tragedy of vast proportions. I am haunted by the tormented faces in our overcrowded refugee camps reflecting the grim events which have compelled the exodus of those millions from East Bengal. I have come here looking for a deeper understanding of the situation in our part of the world, in search of some wise impulse which, as history tells...
...early October, no one thought much of it. After all, they were probably attracted by new mercury vapor lamps in the main square. Besides, far worse problems bedeviled the poor farming town of 4,500 in Brazil's barren Northeast, 100 miles from Recife, most notably a searing drought that had destroyed two harvests in the past three years...