Word: weather
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hare Hilton runs at more than 100% capacity-with strangers bedding down with strangers or sleeping on couches in the lobby and in booths in the restaurant-when storms or fog grounds planes. Says General Manager Lynn Montjoy: "I'm the nasty man who prays for bad weather." Though they deny it, managers often overbook by about 10%. Admits Paul Sheeline, chairman of the Inter-Continental chain: "Hotels overbook a little, like the airlines, because some people do not show...
STRANGE THINGS are happening Down Under. Thunder crackles across cloudless skies, huge chunks of hail fall in the desert, black rain plops eerily down on Sydney. What could possibly be causing it all? The National Weather Bureau assures everyone that these mysterious phenomena are only the side effects of industrial pollution. But are they? As thousands of tiny frogs appear in the city's streets and the sky takes on a pulsing violet glow, it looks like there might be something a bit more sinister than carbon monoxide behind Sydney's strange weather, something far more deadly...
...foremost prophets, Boston Econometrician Otto Eckstein-produce results with errors only 35% to 40% smaller than those arising from careful guesstimating. Perhaps unnecessarily, Eckstein adds: "There's plenty of room for humility." The humbling failure of scientists to predict surely either the course of nature (as in the weather) or cultural dynamics (as in economic and social change) may be one factor that licenses the numberless irrational prophets who proliferate in today's age of ostensible reason...
Dennis's first year as mayor had indeed been trouble-ridden. In January 1978, during his first weeks in office he and the city's grossly ill-equipped service department had been greeted by some of the worst winter weather in the city's history. Months later, his firing of newly-appointed police chief Richard Hongisto sparked a recall election which eventually fell just 236 votes short of ousting him from office. His administration, staffed primarily by unusually young and inexperienced supporters whom the Cleveland business establishment and press continually charged with ineptitude and hostility, had to deal with...
...Harvard hockey team was laid to rest Saturday night in a simple ceremony at Walter Brown Funeral Home. About 200 or so close friends and relatives braved the weather to attend the service. Death was said to be premature, and brought on by the 3-2 loss against St. Lawrence, which preceded the last rites...