Word: harvestable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kinnell's 20-minute reading was part of Writers' Harvest, a two-month long national literary benefit to fight hunger...
This year the Public Advocate for the City of New York studied 30 typical prospectuses and found a rich harvest of obfuscation, especially when it came to the fees, to the risks being taken by the funds and to the descriptions of how well the funds performed. "A dense set of numbers with technical subheadings and little or no explanation" is how the Advocate's office described these documents...
...report released today says about 2.5 million children, pregnant women and nursing mothers face severe malnutrition because of food shortages in Iraq. The U.N. Children's Fund said the Iraqi government's recent cutbacks in food rations are responsible; Baghdad blamed the cutbacks on a poor harvest and on U.N. sanctions imposed after Iraq's August 1990 invasion of Kuwait...
...patch together a normal life. Government workers returned to their desks last week from August vacations. Children put on their maroon uniforms and went back to classrooms lacking books, pencils and paper. In the streets of Havana, the gossip has turned from Castro's woes -- the bad sugar harvest, the new taxes, the problem of prostitution -- to the rafters...
...country. The Venetiaan administration avoided a messy political debate by instead granting a smaller concession of 375,000 acres near the Guyana border. MUSA then began logging without specifying how it will abide by Suriname's strict forestry code. Experts claim that the only profitable way to harvest MUSA's particular stretch of rain forest would be to clear-cut the region, leaving behind a wasteland. Other Asian interests have also put in timber bids. The Malaysian investment group Berjaya Group Berhad is trying to secure rights to 7.5 million acres in Suriname...