Word: weatherization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tournament was plagued with miserable weather as high winds, frigid temperatures and rain forced most of the golfers to play in heavy sweaters and ski caps...
Intangibles: The Big Red usually plays on artificial turf. The grass of The Stadium should work in Harvard's favor, particularly if the weather is bad. Cornell is 0-1 in the league. Another loss and the Big Red is finished. Cornell is 20-30-2 against the Crimson. The biggest loss was in 1890 when the Red fell...
...example, water shortages may be particularly serious in the agricultural areas of the Great Plains if the dry weather continues, as many climatologists suspect. Traditionally dry--the whole area was once known as the Great American Desert--it has become enormously productive through irrigation and crop improvement. But a good deal of the water bodies there are now polluted by fertilizer nitrates and pesticides. Should the drop in the water table continue, safe drinking water may become increasingly scarce...
...want to seem as a group of fair-weather radicals," says Sung-Hee Suh, president of the Harvard Asian-American Law Students Association, at an activism workshop. "We felt strongly about excluding any ideological themes. Once the coalition becomes identified as only political or ideological, we're going to lost what support we have. I don't mean to offend anybody, but I don't want the coalition to be contaminated by the CLS stigma...
...please," he said. Sure enough, only a few drops fell this time. But even after the floodwaters subside, Sudan's political, economic and religious problems will be serious enough to engulf any government. For the majority of Sudan's 24 million citizens, the forecast is gloomy regardless of the weather...