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WHAT ABOUT TIMING? THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S URGENT TIMETABLE IS DRIVEN BY CONCERNS THAT IMPENDING WARM WEATHER COULD DERAIL ITS MILITARY PLANS...
...Harvard offense had difficulty establishing a rhythm, possibly due in part to the poor weather that made the turf slippery. Harvard often appeared tentative, passing the ball around in front of the Northwestern goal without getting many quality shots...
Beth, the character around whom much of the action revolves, is a member of the Weather Underground, a group of revolutionary communists who did not shy away from violent protest...
...other hand, India abandoned agricultural price controls during their famine in the early 1970s. By 1977, it became self-sufficient and even a grain exporter. After post-Mao China recognized more economic rights in 1977, food production increased at 12 percent per year, persisting in growth despite poor weather in 1980. After a devastating 1983 famine, African nations forsaking “social rights” policies for private ownership saw an immediate food production surge, including Zaire, Zambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Madagascar and others...
Before bad weather or rich countries (lack of aid or global institutional bias) can be blamed for the plight of the globe’s poorest, we must hold domestic governments accountable. Judging by its tumultuous history, miraculous Mozambique should be trailing far behind faltering Zimbabwe. Yet it surges upward while its neighbor spirals downward. Tragically, countries that scoff at the economic Miracle-Gro of individual rights protection and savor the emotional satisfaction of “social rights” rhetoric continue to indulge political lunacy while millions needlessly die of hunger...