Word: losses
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...years old, is expected to reduce river levels this summer to the lowest ever recorded." Further, in the Great Plains area of eastern Montana, eastern Wyoming, the Dakotas and Nebraska, the water supply is 40% to 60% below normal. Ski resort operators in nine Western states earlier reported losses totaling $50 million. Estimates of other financial casualties are growing. In Sacramento, officials predict that the drought will cause losses of $500 million in crops, $500 million in livestock and $1 billion in farm income-more than a fifth of California's 1976 $9 billion in agriculture earnings. In Oregon...
...settlement in the Middle East. Repudiating the Labor Party of Israel's founders?David Ben-Guri-on, Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir?Israel's 2.2 million voters gave Begin's Likud 44 seats in the new 120-member Knesset, a gain of five. Labor ended up with 33 seats, a loss of 18 from the previous parliament. The new Democratic Movement for Change, led by Archaeologist and Onetime Chief of Staff Yigael Yadin, won 15 seats, most of them clearly at Labor's expense. Expectations are that Likud will be able to form a fragile, right-wing coalition government with...
...deadly than all the previous ones combined. About 2,600 Israelis were killed in the three-week October War of 1973. Next time around, according to Washington military estimates, Israel would lose 8,000 and suffer about 24,000 wounded in a war of the same duration; the Arab loss could be 40,000 killed...
Meanwhile, on the Arab side, the Syrians have added new squadrons of advanced Russian-made MiG-23 fighters, and even the Egyptians?despite the loss of Soviet supplies since Cairo-Moscow relations cooled?have managed to get quantities of the highly mobile SA-7 Strela, one of the world's most effective antiaircraft missiles...
Disillusionment with the societies has dealt them a final blow. Mather House took its biggest loss of the season when it ordered Traffic but could not gather enough people to run the movie the weekend it came. Izkowitz returned the film untouched, but had to pay the $150 rental fee anyway. Usually, most of the film societies operate with a core of only five to ten workers, and several more who will move tables if asked. While it is forbiden to pay members, most of the societies use free screenings and parties to entice prospective helpers. "Unless you have...