Word: haye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...villages not to deceive a ruler but to catch the restless eye of his subjects. When Reagan worries about Republican defections in the farm belt, the presidential podium and the press corps are flown out to a state fair in Illinois, where he can speak against a backdrop of hay. Should there be a show of concern about the Middle East? Vice President Bush travels to see the friendlies in Israel, Jordan and Egypt. The press was driven to analyzing not what the trip accomplished but whether it had any content at all. It was the White House that staged...
...heat wave that has baked the life out of the Southeast. Ten days of sauna-like temperatures of 100 degrees or more have exacerbated four months of drought, perhaps the worst dry spell in the region's history. So far, 15 people have died of heat prostration. Peanuts, hay and cotton have shriveled; the agricultural loss in Georgia is already estimated at $140 million. In North Carolina, some 200,000 chickens have died -- suffocated, in effect, by the hot, still air. It has been so blistering that thirsty wasps have been furiously stinging people to get the moisture of their...
...fast turnaround in the U.S. steel industry's epic slump. The company will operate in Chapter 11 for an estimated 1 1/2 to four years, shielded from creditors to whom it owes more than $4 billion, while it tries to overhaul its steel operations. Declared Chairman Raymond Hay: "We are fully confident that we will emerge from Chapter 11 as a strong, viable company." Indeed, bankruptcy in recent years has become much less final than it sounds. Last year the Wickes retailing and building-supply company and Continental Air both emerged from Chapter 11 in robust condition...
...Last week's heat wave, which reached 105 degrees F in parts of the Carolinas, further scorched crops and killed more than 500,000 chickens. "This could put us completely out of business," laments Dairy Farmer Charlie Bouldin, of Chatham County, N.C., who expects less than 30% of his hay and corn crops to survive...
...Sash, a British army helicopter hovered overhead and riot police stood guard before the 20-ft.-high screens they had just erected. Later that evening, 22 miles away, another group of men in tribal orange filed through the village of Downpatrick and gathered on a field of freshly mown hay. "We have our backs to the wall," an aged Protestant clergyman exhorted his flock, "and our whole province is in a state of turmoil...