Word: weather
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knowledge that people were prepared to die for democracy. Construction workers and medical volunteers erected a makeshift clinic, using scaffolding and canvas, as doctors and nurses ministered to the hunger strikers, some of whom had sworn off water as well as food and were wilting rapidly in the warm weather. The strikers were given glucose solutions, intravenously or orally. When the weather turned foul on Wednesday night, they were moved inside buses that had been brought to Tiananmen Square by the Chinese Red Cross...
Yellowstone's herd of 2,700 bison was reduced more by a highly controversial hunt last fall and winter just outside the park (570 killed) and harsh weather (260) than by the fire (9). Yellowstone's best-known residents, 200 or so grizzlies, may have been reduced by a total of two as a result of the conflagrations. A pair of bears that had been tagged with radio transmitters could not be located during the winter. Says Assistant Chief Ranger Gary Brown: "The bears don't seem to be frightened by fire. Poaching is a bigger threat by a long...
...message posted in the roll call room reads: "Summer uniforms as of Sunday 28 May 1989"--even now, after midnight, balmy weather makes the winter uniforms a difficult burden to bear. A lieutenant, as the graveyard-shift officers get ready to roll, gives the warning, "Let's be careful out there...
Teams are never supposed to give up. Not in a scrimmage, not in a game and especially not in a national championship game. But given the score, the opponent (Penn State is the nation's number-one ranked team) and the weather (unbearably hot), Harvard might have been forgiven for easing up a little...
...automated answering systems, voice-messaging units or, most simply, voice mail. In the past six years, tens of thousands of voice-messaging systems have been installed in stores, offices and government agencies. The units answer phones, route callers and dispense information ranging from baseball scores and movie reviews to weather reports and horoscopes. Even the Vatican has a voice-mail system, allowing devout callers to hear messages recorded by the Pope...