Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talking and working for three years to ease the burden of taxation on all Americans." Worst of all, from the Democrats' viewpoint, the party will appear to be preaching fear of the future, and that is scarcely as appealing in the voting booth as Reagan's all-weather optimism...
...Rockefeller Center. Travelers waited four and five hours just to get into bureaucracy's front door. A Washington Post editorial writer reported a few days ago that the passengers on her 747, diverted to Hartford, Conn., on the return flight from Rome as a result of bad weather in New York City, were forced to sit on a runway for seven hours because no customs inspectors were on hand to process them...
...main reason for the good news is that cold weather caused higher than normal heating-oil demand during the last half of the winter. That, in turn, resulted in the production of more gasoline; two gallons of gasoline are produced whenever a gallon of heating oil is refined. The excess fuel went into storage tanks and is now helping to depress prices. The U.S. has gasoline stocks amounting to 250 million bbl., fully 13% more than at the same time last summer...
...issue, only a handful of them more than 500 words long. Yet the consumer-oriented daily "Money" section solidly covers business and economics, and the editorial page imaginatively devotes its space each day to exploring a single issue. Other dailies have copied USA Today's colorful, information-packed weather map, its news highlights from all 50 states and, above all, its inclusive, statistics-laden sports section. But the paper does have conspicuous weaknesses: cover age of popular culture is spotty, and personality profiles, whether of athletes or political figures, are too few and too superficial. As Gannett anticipated...
...slipped thermal shield and a computer blackout, the new space shuttle Discovery sat perched on its Florida launch pad last Tuesday morning, its nose poked impatiently toward the sky. In a chase plane high above Kennedy Space Center, Astronaut John Young took a last look at the weather and gave the final O.K. for takeoff. The shuttle's on-board computers began the final countdown. "We are go for main-engine ignition," NASA Commentator Mark Hess announced. The engine grumbled noisily, snorting smoke and fire... Six, five, four...