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Meteorologists, who subscribe to the faith that no weather is truly inexplicable, said that the drought in the Midwest has been caused by a particularly stubborn high-pressure system stuck over the center of the country. The system has been pulling rain-bearing winds from the Gulf of Mexico to Southern California and Nevada. Alicia was caused by a cooler front slanting down from Canada along the East Coast. As its leading edge crashed into the hot air over the gulf, a storm was born that soon grew into a hurricane...
...beyond these gleanings the authors patiently give substance and shape to the world's most protean political and cultural organism. The standardization of urban skylines, the mailing of the suburbs and monotoning of news barely begin to smooth out the stubborn differences that define each region of the country. Pennsylvanian Peirce and North Dakotan Hagstrom count eight discrete sections: Mid-Atlantic, New England, Great Lakes, Border South, Deep South, Great Plains, Mountain, and Pacific, which includes Alaska, an area so large that it embraces four time zones...
...deficit will remain a stubborn obstacle to holding down interest rates. "You can't talk of monetary policy in a vacuum without reference to the enormous debt level and to the responsibility of Congress and the President," says Harry Freeman, a senior vice president of Shearson/American Express. "Volcker is being asked to keep interest rates down when he only has part of the action." Congress continues to fail to cut the fiscal 1984 budget deficit below the projected $180 billion. The Senate last week approved funds for the B-1 bomber and chemical-weapons systems. The House passed...
...isolate a single speaker by elimination: Katie has crawled under the stall door, Anne is wedged there, and Jenny is looking for a dime, so it must be Celia. But no, we have established that it is not Celia. The speaker stays hidden, and her stubborn use of the first person plural makes the point that she and the others moved about the big house like fish in a school...
...brink of the Yosemite Valley and the first to lead a wagon train into California, in 1843. Frontiersman Joseph Walker, says Biographer Bil Gilbert, "should have become a gaudy boon to the toy and TV industries" like his contemporary, Kit Carson. The reason he did not: Walker's stubborn refusal to embroider his achievements for legend-hungry Eastern journalists. So they "moved on to men and events that could be conventionally romanticized...