Word: seven
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...message was loud and clear, and suddenly people began to listen, to ponder what portents the message held. In the U.S., a three-month drought baked the soil from California to Georgia, reducing the country's grain harvest by 31% and killing thousands of head of livestock. A stubborn seven-week heat wave drove temperatures above 100 degrees F across much of the country, raising fears that the dreaded "greenhouse effect" -- global warming as a result of the buildup of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere -- might already be under way. Parched by the lack of rain...
BOWL GAMES (Jan. 2). A day late this year, but a blitz of seven -- count 'em -- games will try to dispel those postholiday hangovers: the Cotton on CBS; Florida Citrus, Rose and Sugar on ABC; and Hall of Fame, Fiesta and Orange...
...near. When Colorado Senator Timothy Wirth held congressional hearings on the greenhouse effect in the fall of 1987, the topic generated no heat at all. "We had a very, very distinguished panel," Wirth recalled at the TIME Environment Conference, "and who was in the cavernous hearing room? Six or seven people, and two or three of them were lost tourists...
...another national-unity government with the Labor Party. Shamir had vowed to give up his mandate to form a government if he lost. Later the same day, Labor's central committee, also divided over the wisdom of the party's casting its lot with Likud, ratified the coalition proposal. Seven weeks of wrangling followed inconclusive elections on Nov. 1, but the U.S. decision to open a dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization precipitated Israel's warring leaders into a second consecutive government of opposing ideologies. The two parties converged on one overriding fundamental: no dealing with the P.L.O...
Most of the criticism for everything from nonexistent planning to shoddy building came from the Soviets themselves, not from the West, which seemed intent on showing the Armenians just how much compassion can be tapped once Moscow simply admits it needs help. Sixty-seven countries sent assistance, including nearly 2,000 rescue workers and more than 100 planes loaded with earth-moving equipment, medical supplies, tents and clothing. Japan donated $9 million, Italy wanted to build a prefabricated village for survivors, and West Germany offered to send 16 heavy cranes...