Word: snowstorms
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...What I remember most that year was thinking it was a miracle that there was a parade at all. The night before D.C. had [had] a snowstorm accumulating six inches! So that night the Inaugural committee had 3,000 servicemen, 700 trucks, 100 snowplows, even Army flame throwers working all night. When it was time for the parade, anywhere and everywhere you looked there were at least six inches of snow, but on Pennsylvania Avenue, it was clear as a bell...
...numbers looked the way they did," says Burcu Duygan-Bump. Partly because of conversations the economists had with Fed staffers in the banking supervision division, the group came to believe the aggregate data was obscuring the underlying dynamics of the financial system. "If you say New England has a snowstorm with an average snowfall of two inches, that might not reflect the fact that Boston got ten inches and northern Maine got none," says Ethan Cohen-Cole, another of the economists...
...been disappointed with the New England autumn’s rainy days and glum weather, you’ve probably just been focusing of the wrong things. FM has scoured the region for the perfect fall experiences that will make you appreciate New England before the first snowstorm: Blue Hills Reservation Located off of I-93 and accessible through the Commuter Rail, the Blue Hills Reservation is the most convenient place for an October foliage hike. From the summit hikers can see 7,000 acres of trails and trees combined with a splendid view of Boston proper. Swimming is allowed...
...must carry less weight than it would have a few years ago - on previous occasions he has been obliged to ask the people's pardon for everything from the deaths of coal miners and polluted drinking water to train passengers stranded by the authorities' inadequate response to a severe snowstorm. Faced with an ever expanding crisis over poisoned milk products and a string of other recent accidents that left hundreds dead - all directly attributable to administrative negligence or corruption - ordinary Chinese might be excused for asking themselves whether the government ever intends to do more than just apologize. To some...
...myself, it seems that I have been writing about him forever, back to when John F. Kennedy ’40 was only a first-term senator and Ted was a starting end for Harvard, catching a deflected pass in a snowstorm for a touchdown against Yale...