Word: flooded
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...wave and drought in decades. Hurricane Gilbert, considered the most violent storm nature can produce, has caused thousands in Texas to evacuate the Gulf coast and billions of dollars worth of damage in Jamaica and Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. In Bangladesh, some 40,000 homes have been destroyed by flooding and the stagnating flood waters may spread disease through most of the population. The forest fires in the Northwest, exacerbated by the weather, have burned an area approximately the size of Connecticut and still have not been brought under control...
Even then the crisis will not be over. Already, experts estimate that as many as five hundred thousand new cases of diarrhea are occurring each day, most of them caused by polluted drinking water. Dysentery and perhaps cholera may soon follow. Because the flood has destroyed at least a quarter of this year's food crops, widespread hunger and perhaps pockets of starvation are anticipated...
India has averted the problem by building dikes to contain the monsoon- swollen rivers, but that has merely pushed the flood problem downstream. B.M. Abbas, a former minister of flood control in the Dhaka government who favors the construction of a vast system of Himalayan dams as a long-term solution, charges that "Bangladesh is being destroyed by its neighbors...
Starting two full years before the election, Bird's well-organized opposition has raised $4.6 million so far, more than four times what her . supporters have gathered. The money has financed a flood of direct mail, but perhaps the most potent Bird-blasting weapon has been Crime Victims for Court Reform. Drawing on the savvy of Strategist Bill Roberts, a political consultant who co-managed Ronald Reagan's 1966 gubernatorial campaign, the group includes victims of crime and their families, in some cases the parents or spouses of murder victims. With the passion of bitter experience, they denounce Bird...
Takeshita's task was made easier by an abrupt turnaround in the balance of trade between the two countries, another source of irritation to Beijing. In 1985 a flood of Japanese consumer goods into China ballooned trade between the two nations to $19 billion, with Japan enjoying a $6 billion surplus. Since then China has cut back on imports and dramatically increased exports to Japan. For the first six months of 1988, trade was up to a record $10.3 billion, but now China enjoys a $530 million surplus...