Word: weather
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...been taken," says Friedbert Pfluger, foreign affairs spokesman for Germany's opposition Christian Democratic Union, "there will be a problem in Europe." Large numbers of Europeans believe the timetable for war is driven not by Iraq's behavior but by the U.S. desire to attack before Iraq's desert weather heats up to make warfare more difficult...
...Massachusetts state budget continues to crumble under its most disastrous revenue shortfall since the 1980s, all eyes are now focused on whether the new governor, equipped with his Harvard MBA, will be able to weather the shoals of the current fiscal crisis...
...small plane, but there are much greater costs. I have had four colleagues who, along with their families, perished in crashes. By comparison, I have lost one friend in a car crash and none via commercial flights. All four of my pilot friends were qualified for night and bad-weather flights. Like J.F.K. Jr., too many small-craft pilots don't fly often enough to stay sharp, or they take off, bad weather or not, because plans were made and time is short. Give me terra firma any time, even with traffic delays. RONALD ROTTSCHAFER Psychologist Oak Brook...
...cattle have died of cold and starvation in Mongolia's fourth-successive winter of disastrous weather...
...Weather: The optimal winter conditions for ground warfare in Iraq won't last beyond April Scale of the deployments: The U.S. and Britain will struggle to maintain such a large force on standby in the region through the summer Politics: Support for a war is beginning to ebb domestically and opposition abroad and at home is rapidly mounting - and both trends are more likely to grow rather than shrink the longer the decision is deferred Economics: The prospect of war is having a profoundly negative effect on U.S. and world markets, and continuing uncertainty over Iraq dampens prospects...