Word: rain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sharp, who stepped down from Congress this year after 10 terms as a representative from Indiana, said this was a response to the growing concern over acid rain on the sides of both the environmentalists and the industrial associations...
...National Guard, and suspended toll-collecting on evacuation routes in preparation for the arrival Tuesday of Hurricane Erin. While not projected to be as lethal as Andrew was, Erin is expected to pound the southern part of the state with 90 mph winds, dumping up to 10 inches of rain and causing widespread flooding...
More than 100 Grateful Dead fans were hurt, five critically, when a covered wooden deck at a campground near the site of a St. Louis-area concert collapsed, apparently under the weight of hundreds of youths seeking shelter from rain. Earlier, two fans were found dead at the campground, possibly from drug-related causes. And a concert near Indianapolis was canceled after a crowd of unruly fans without tickets had to be quelled by riot police. --By Kathleen Adams, Melissa August, Nick Catoggio, Lina Lofaro, Michael Quinn, Alain L. Sanders, Anastasia Toufexis and Sidney Urquhart
Burma, one of the world's most repressive military regimes,stunned the international community by abruptly freeingAung San Suu Kyi-- Nobel peace prize winner and champion of the southeast Asian country's democracy movement -- from six years of house arrest. As hundreds of supporters gathered in a light rain outside her home in Rangoon, historically laconic military leaders merely noted that her sentence had expired. "No one expected this to happen," saysTIME's Sandra Burton, in the Burmese capital. "The move indicates far greater confidence on the part of the junta that neither Suu Kyi nor the people will rush...
...bring extensive rain gear. Umbrella, rain coat, duck boots--the whole works. It rains here . A lot. Sometimes an umbrella alone does very little to protect you from Boston's torrential downpours, which are usually accompanied by gusty winds. And the old brick sidewalks of Cambridge have a way of collecting rainwater and ruining shoes. If you don't like getting wet, consider transferring...