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...that sweeps across equatorial waters at intervals of 30 to 60 days. Under its influence, says climatologist Wayne Higgins of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the atmosphere at mid-latitudes can undergo dramatic rearrangement. The result: a classic configuration called the Pineapple Express, in which the jet stream steers powerful cyclonic systems over warm waters near Hawaii, where they tank up with moisture before slamming into the West Coast. That is what happened around the first of the year, when back-to-back storms swept through California, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona and Utah and then went on to savage...
...There was a surge at the outset in the first few days and a steady stream of contributions since then,” Power added...
...that propels this book forward. It's enough that King etches so expertly the fine filigree of the man's resignation and pain, his awareness of the "burden of my dullness"--which the reader understands is just the world's inability to find its way into his steady, lustrous stream of consciousness. At one point, trying to muster sympathy for Sylvia's addiction, he recollects his own druggy days. "For a moment, I recall those spectacular arcs of time when I was the solitary pinprick of sensation in the whole wide world, the one heroic lawbreaker in our dutiful universe...
...soybeans, the labor market is also subject to the rules of supply and demand?and the Pearl River Delta is facing a manpower shortage of 2 million workers, according to the Labor Ministry survey. Manufacturing capacity has expanded so rapidly in the past several years that the stream of migrants from the poor countryside is no longer large enough to replenish the labor pool. Rising agricultural incomes in recent years have started to keep many would-be migrant workers back on the farm...
...What is the half-life of your innovation?" he screams, in a perfect parody of corporate newspeak. Hart's musical ear for creating nonsense versions of the aerobicized cynicism of biz language becomes one of the book's biggest pleasures. When Worner later runs into a disguised Hutch spewing stream of consciousness poetry he thinks he's finally found someone who's "not afraid to be an idiot for the bottom line." Instigating "infiltration plan beta-pi," Hutch takes a consultation...