Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bites as they looped through the media markets. The contest was a procession of internal defeats and victories (Mondale won the first debate, Reagan tied the second, and so on), and yet by definition it was all inconclusive, conjectural, a pageant of popular mood capable of changing like the weather. Theoretically capable, anyway. The pollsters monitored the isobars and issued a unanimous forecast: Mondale would be inundated...
...nearly 50, and with very little official experience, Indira Gandhi almost accidentally became the leader of India's millions. She seemed to have no clear idea of what to do. The economy lurched into a major recession, bad weather brought threats of famine, and a general election the following year sharply reduced the Congress Party's majority. "The Prime Minister has no program, no world view, no grand design," one of her aides later commented. Mrs. Gandhi corroborated that analysis, in a way, when she said, "I have a housewife's mentality when I go about...
...course, no ordinary refrigerator. The 3-cu.-ft. model used aboard the Navy's P-3 Orion antisubmarine plane had to operate at high altitudes and in turbulent weather, resist vibrations and not affect the aircraft's sensitive electronic gear. Even so, it hardly seemed worth the price the Navy paid...
Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko glanced up at gray, glowering skies as he stepped out of his limousine at the Kremlin last week for a special plenum of the Communist Party Central Committee. The weather must have been very much on his mind. For the sixth consecutive year, the Soviet climate had played havoc with grain crops. The yield, according to Western estimates, was expected to measure only 170 million metric tons, well below the 220 million metric tons needed for annual consumption...
That kind of drop would be very good news to homeowners as the weather gets colder. Last winter the price of home heating oil jumped by about 100 per gal. in two months, to $1.17, when a series of cold snaps hit the U.S. But if this winter is normal, a decline in crude prices of $1.50 could bring a 30 drop in heating oil, to $1.02 per gal. Heating-oil users are also benefiting from the fuel's competition with natural gas, which currently is in abundant supply in the U.S. Possibly adding to the gas glut...