Word: rain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...example, Murray says electric power plants in China have multiple negative effects on the surrounding community, including problems with acid rain, dust and carbon dioxide emission...
...typical session, last Wednesday night in exurban Bayville, New Jersey, attracted 93 voters despite rain and fog. Norris Clark, the full-time state director, told the group, ``We're talking about a major new party--national-- right up there with the Republicans and Democrats.'' Though the G.O.P.'s Contract with America picks up several of U.W.S.A.'s causes, he pointed out, it omits others. When he asked for opinions from the floor, virtually every voice condemned the major parties as hopelessly out of touch. Agnes James, 58, a real estate agent with five children, promised, ``We will provide a focus...
...state have brought in mobile health clinics and distributed food to local peasants, the country's poorest. Land reform promised since the revolution of 1910 is finally being implemented: last week the state government announced that a privately held 5,000-hectare hacienda in the southerly Lacandon rain forest was broken up and handed over to peasants. ``It's a very important first step toward solving the worst problem in Chiapas--land,'' says government spokesman Juan Chavez...
...mountain biking team sent representatives to three competitions over the fall semester where they races, rain or shine, across miles of cross-country terrain...
DISASTERS: And the Rain Came Tumbling Down...