Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...walkmen with speakers do give a similar sound, the box's portability makes it more popular with students. "A box is a good way to get a group together for a study party outside," says Cathy M. Dale '90. The Matthews Hall resident took advantage of yesterday's sunny weather to use her box in Harvard Yard for just that purpose...
Domestic pressures motivated the dumping. American farmers, already driven by federal farm subsidies to overproduce, were stricken in large areas with perfect weather for growing, thus suffering a record-breaking harvest. The subsequent abundance caused a slump in the already sliding commodities market...
...Dutch crew of two men and one woman waited anxiously in Newfoundland for a month before conditions finally allowed them to launch their 46-meter-tall balloon. But at last they caught the weather just right. After a flawless flight across the Atlantic, Pilot Henk Brink, 42, his wife Evelien, 31, and Fighter Pilot Willem Hageman, 39, last week became the first Europeans to accomplish the balloon voyage and, with a time of 51 hrs. 14 min., shaved more than a day off the old record. "A piece of cake," said Hageman. The only hitch in their speedy journey...
...week of stormy weather. First a typhoon deluged Manila, then Washington criticized President Corazon Aquino for not being tough enough on Communist insurgents. And there were new rumblings from negotiators for the rebels, who warned that government statements were threatening the month-old cease-fire talks. President Aquino found a patch of political sunshine, however, in a historic agreement with Muslim Leader Nur Misuari to pursue autonomy for the 5 million Muslims in the southern Philippines...
...political and strategic constraints placed on Eisenhower dictated the way he waged the campaign. But never before have these problems been spelled out in such day-by-day, sometimes hour-by-hour detail. The D-day Normandy invasion of June 6, 1944, code named OVERLOAD, was plagued by foul weather, shortages and doubt up to the moment that Ike said, "O.K., we'll go." Churchill called this operation "undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever taken place," which sounds like understatement in the context of David Eisenhower's meticulous reconstruction of the event...