Word: meridian
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...things seem more placid today, that is only because the hired guns are lawyers and lobbyists camouflaged in pinstripes. High-stakes hydrobattles are brewing throughout the West as it runs out of new water sources. This arid region -- stretching from the 100th meridian to the Pacific -- now finds itself unable to accommodate both its rapid urban growth and a powerful agribusiness that guzzles 85% of all water at heavily subsidized prices that offer little incentive for conservation...
...Baton Rouge. A White House communications aide tells Fuller that "somebody is trying to contact Timberwolf." Barbara Bush is using five minutes of free time after a campaign stop in Meridian, Miss., to reach her husband. Bush is still in the post-jambalaya press conference for the local media and can't get to the phone...
Some businessmen and economists argue that American companies must assume considerable blame for their failure to sell more of their products abroad. Says Charles Nevil, president of the Meridian Group, a Los Angeles-based export-management firm: "American firms have a basic indifference to exports. The hard dollar wasn't the cancer, and the soft dollar isn't the cure" for the deficit. If American exports are to grow, companies must become more adept at satisfying the needs and tastes of foreign consumers...
Carl Chiarenza shot torn film wrappers to create what one curator described as the only "pure abstract" work of the exhibit. Gary Duehr's Meridian series contains photographs taken intentionally unfocused and the images within them are unrecognizable...
...People Express rate from Newark to London, uncomplicated by discounts and variations, is the cheapest transatlantic fare and seems to be regarded as a basic unit of measurement, like the prime meridian in Greenwich: $169, one way. But that is only as of today. The price is going up to $189 on April 28 and to $199 on June 5. In July, it may increase again. At these rates, the airline is booked nearly solid for May and is already taking reservations for June...