Word: warmer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Warmer weather and increased production from non-U.M.W. mines had undercut the strike's effectiveness. Moreover, the financial burden of the walkout was finally grinding down the stubborn miners and their families. "I'm hurtin'," confessed Miner Johnny Elkins, 25, of Hernshaw, W. Va., who voted against the last contract offer. To make ends meet, he had been cutting and selling firewood for $35 a truckload. "Now spring's coming," said Elkins, "and people ain't needing firewood." So he traded in his chain saw for a secondhand trail bike and voted...
...Bill sees it, we should stay in New England and watch Wisconsin skate to its second NCAA championship in a row. After all, Providence is south o Cambridge and must be warmer than Massachusetts...
Through the greenhouse effect nitrous oxide, acting in the same fashion as carbon dioxide, traps heat within the earth's atmosphere. A rise in the nitrous oxide level could inevitably make the earth warmer, McElroy said...
...Western states, unlike those of the Northern states (including states in the Great Lakes region), are well recovered from the recent recession. For example, the Sunbelt's unemployment rate has hovered around 6%, while recent Northern rates are approximately 8%. Given the South's attractions for business, including its warmer, less energy-consuming climes and nonunionized labor, the regional imbalance may grow. So increasingly Northern states are looking enviously at one Sunbelt advantage that they believe can be reversed: the hefty portion of federal spending the South receives...
...cold days, heat is often raised to the point of overcompensation, so when a warmer day follows, it is hard to cool off the rooms in response, Paul Mark, automation foremar, at B&G, says...