Word: outwards
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...forestall the end. Farmers can simply use less water. They are already converting from profitable but water-thirsty corn to water-thrifty crops such as wheat, sorghum and cotton. James Mitchell, a cotton farmer from Wolfforth, Texas, has installed an experimental center-pivot sprinkler that, instead of spraying outward, gently drops water directly into the planted furrows, thereby reducing evaporation. Sophisticated laser-guided land graders can now almost perfectly flatten the terrain so that water is not wasted in runoff. Electrodes planted in the fields can measure soil wetness and determine exactly when water is needed. Today, these techniques...
...women who have been through these valleys counsel outward calm to quiet with quiet, steady work. This Administration has not always been quiet or steady or calm, but it has not stumbled into irreversible catastrophe. Needed more than ever before are Congressman Jones' long view of history and the skill to discern how the acts of these hours will affect generations ahead. Two centuries ago, Germany's Friedrich von Schiller wrote an immutable law of events: "In today already walks tomorrow...
Andres agrees with Spitzer's description, laughing. "We are to the Outward Bound survival courses what the 'I Hate to Cook Cookbook' is to cooking...
Glemp's sermon was one more dramatic indication that Jaruzelski was failing in his bid to impose national unity by force after four weeks of martial law. If his troops had managed to crush the last of the major strikes and restore outward order, the regime had won neither loyalty nor respect from the Polish people. A stubborn spirit of resistance still lived in the land (see box, following page...
...average; by most of the world's standards, they live like caliphs The current constriction of their housing may make some Americans claustrophobic, but cross-cultural comparison might also remind them to be grateful for what they have It might encourage them, as well, to shift their perspectives outward a little, to conceive of themselves less as isolated units more as communities. It is not the individual hut that has cultural force and meaning, but the village as a whole, tl sum of our larger arrangements as a tribe. -By Lance Morrow