Word: storm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...toward California on the wings of a 200-m.p.h. jet stream. Normally, a high-pressure dome off the coast deflects such activity, guarding the state's reputation for temperate days. But the dome dissipated, explains the National Weather Service, and with it went the region's shelter from the storm. That old devil El Nino, the condition that sends warmth and moisture into the air over the Pacific, may have entered that void and so become a menacing contributor to California's extraordinary week...
...estimate, Californians have suffered $32 billion in disaster damages just since 1989. Even in an off year like 1991 -- the Oakland fire storm, a deep freeze, a drought -- the catastrophe tab came to $3 billion. Enter this, the first setback of 1995, into the ledger then, and it looks like a drop in the bucket, the past being prologue...
Take, to begin with, the debacle the Russian army suffered when it tried last week to storm the Chechen capital of Grozny, only to be driven back from the city center by greatly outnumbered and outgunned Chechen fighters. Yes, everyone knew the Russian military was no longer the tightly disciplined, overpowering army that a few years ago haunted the dreams of potential victims from Beijing to Bonn. It still came as a shock that the machine had deteriorated so badly -- and a greater shock that so much of it was riven by dissension and insubordination from teenage draftees who deserted...
...audience. But the traits of the characters which be prelude conveys would be obvious in any case. And the inclusion of some really banal lines does not help. [Of tea] "We Japanese women drink a lot of it... Become it... Swallow the tempest... And nobody knows... The storm inside." One can only express these sentiments so many times after Oliver Stone's movie. "The Joy Luck Club," before they start sounding simply silly...
...Californians continued to mop up heavy rain damage, flash-flood warnings were issued today for the northern half of the state, where a new storm is expected to hit tonight. Another large storm system is moving toward southern California from the Pacific. The two-week onslaught of rain has taken ten lives and caused an estimated $300 million in damages...