Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There was not enough food for the winter, and no shelter. Already the high mountains had snow on them...
...girl lay down and died. Nonetheless, the group was relatively fortunate: only a few hours after the villagers arrived safely in Pakistan, the first blizzard of the winter obscured the horizon. Dozens of people from neighboring villages who had left just one day later died in the driving snow...
...reeling from the effects of overcrowding. Trails of beer and soft-drink cans festoon the mountainsides. Slashes that are cut into the forest to meet the demand for ski slopes create avalanches in the winter and mud slides in the summer. Salt scattered over ski runs to harden the snow now fouls water supplies, as do the tons of detergents from hotels and condominiums. Animals that need space, such as eagles, lynxes and hares, are disappearing. The contamination of mountain streams has put 70% of lower Bavaria's fish on the endangered list. And perhaps gravest...
...adore it in Canada. Here we are hunkered down mindlessly in the snow, smack in the middle of the shortest possible overland missile, or, if you like, infantry route between those legendary, loving pals the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The 20th century, promised to us by Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier in 1904, is almost over, and Canada, so far as pennant-contending nations go, is still fumbling through spring training. Unemployment is running at 11%. Our dollar is teetering at 760 (U.S.). But what had surfaced as one of the most contentious election issues in the first month...
...book's strongest sections cover the arts of selling and negotiating. McCormack's skills in these areas are both revered and reviled: in siding circles he was once dubbed "the abominable snow-job man." A negotiator, says McCormack, should give in on minor points to soften up the opposition and ease the way for whining the important issues. Use silence as a stratagem, he urges. If a negotiator holds his tongue, the opposition may find the silence uncomfortable and volunteer information or make new concessions...