Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...once a witness to what you label a "rogue wind" in your article about the sinking of the Marques [NATION, June 18]. I was standing a watch belowdecks during a relatively calm stretch of weather after we had been forced to put to sea because of an approaching hurricane. Suddenly the ship, the U.S.S. Catskill, a converted cruiser, heeled over noticeably to starboard, as if pushed by a giant hand. Everything not tied down crashed against the starboard bulkhead. The phenomenon was not repeated, and we suffered no casualties or damages. If the ship had been under full sail, nothing...
Cold winter weather settled over Argentina last week, but for President Raúl Alfonsín the heat was on. A team of negotiators from the International Monetary Fund was pressing Alfonsín to curb Argentine wages and government spending as part of an austerity program that would qualify the country for a new $2.1 billion package of loans. At the same time, Argentine labor unions were demanding hefty wage hikes, and about one-fifth of the country's work force was either on strike or threatening to walk...
...that spun off from a storm system that swept across the Midwest last Thursday night. At least 16 people died and hundreds were injured. "In my 25 years here, I don't remember a storm that has been so widespread," said Wayne Ellingson of the National Weather Service in Des Moines...
...Soviet operation, code-named Goodbye Massoud, the mujahedin commander suddenly slipped away from his headquarters and went into hiding. The following week the Soviets claimed Massoud was dead. Within hours, the rebel leader's voice crackled over the Soviet army's secret radio network, accurately describing the weather, the Soviet positions and their casualties that day. Meanwhile, in whatever direction Soviet tanks turned, they ran across rebel-laid land mines. According to Western diplomats in the Afghan capital of Kabul, casualties were so high that gravediggers at the local cemetery worked overtime to bury up to 40 soldiers...
Despite generally poor weather this spring, sales rose 25.3% during the first three months of 1984, and March was the best month in nearly six years. Executives say that business is getting a lift from baby boomers who now have children of their own and want an inexpensive means of travel. They tout a University of Michigan study indicating that 40% of households surveyed plan to buy or use a recreational vehicle over the next three years...