Word: rains
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Torrential rain wiped out the grand opening of this year's U.S. Open on Thursday, and the USGA will be poorer for it. Although 42,500 tickets were already sold for the first day of play, many stayed away because of weather, and those that showed up weren't milling about buying hamburgers. "It stinks," says Bevacqua. "We lose the revenue from food and merchandising, and it costs us more money to restore the golf course. Bad weather takes its toll on us." Merchandising and food make up about 30% of the USGA's revenues from the Open, and when...
...holes on Thursday and was one over par, trying to repeat as U.S. Open champ; New York fan favorite Phil Mickelson playing in his first major since his wife was stricken with breast cancer. But now, with bad weather forecast throughout the weekend, the Open is all about the rain...
...laws that sparked the protests. The president, addressing a military ceremony over the weekend, said he had no intention of backpedaling, claiming that there was "a conspiracy afoot to keep Peru from using it natural riches." (Read a story about the ecological perils of oil development in the Amazon rain forest...
...this past February. Indigenous communities, under AIDESEP, objected to a number of decrees that dealt with water and land rights. They argued that the decrees would not only increase the number of oil and logging concessions already granted in the country's 67 million hectares (165 million acres) of rain forest, but allow for the actual sale of their ancestral territories...
...Twenty-pound charges have been replaced by oil drums packed with hundreds of pounds of explosives, set off by trip wires and pressure plates, that are capable of reducing up-armored humvees to pieces. Under cover of darkness, IED teams burrow deep under the tarmac or wheelbarrow bombs into rain culverts, which number into the thousands in some provinces, spread out over hundreds of miles of road...