Word: weatherization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have changed the atmosphere, and thus we are changing the weather. By changing the weather, we make every spot on earth man-made and artificial. We have deprived nature of its independence, and that is fatal to its meaning. Nature's independence is its meaning; without it there is nothing...
Initially, the interviewer may try to break the ice by talking about anything but the job - such as sports, the weather, or current events. One Harvard senior encountered an interviewer who spent an entire 30-minute interview talking about football. They had a great conversation - but the student didn't get a second interview...
...Lousy weather and wet field conditions forced the Harvard field hockey team to postpone its game with Boston University, which was scheduled to be played yesterday at Soldiers Field at 3 p.m. The game has been rescheduled for this afternoon at Boston University's Nickerson Field...
...tough because of the weather," Gifford said. "We had some good moments--our passing was good. But we weren't getting enough shots off. We weren't creating enough opportunities...
This winter may be bleaker than usual in the U.S.S.R. With cold weather fast approaching and an increasingly militant labor force threatening to paralyze the transportation system, supplies of food and fuel could be in jeopardy. Soviet leaders reacted with old-style authority by proposing sweeping emergency measures: a ban on all strikes for 15 months and deployment of troops to break an Azerbaijani blockade of Armenia. But after a dramatic all- night debate, legislators in the Supreme Soviet did what not so long ago was unthinkable. They rebuffed the strike proposal as "unconstitutional" and voted instead to put strict...