Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that some laws may have to be passed by overriding a presidential veto. But the pro-worker lobby is pushing to get as much as it can as fast as it can. After all, 1988 is an election year, and the political climate can be as fickle as the weather...
...butter. All around the people were not exactly somber -- "It is primarily a sad event," a spokesman had said, "but it is also a celebration for our teacher" -- but there was no undue hilarity, no dope, no booze, no Woodstock feel, though everybody said the vibes were good. The weather was spectacular, warm and caressing. Children gamboled in the wildflowers...
Turned sweet and bright red by unusually warm spring weather, Oregon's strawberries ripened early this year into a bounteous crop of some 80 million lbs. But last week Roy Malensky, a grower in Hillsboro, Ore., who supplies berries for such products as Breyers Ice Cream and Dannon Yogurt, stood in his giant strawberry patch and mourned row upon row of darkened, spoiled fruit. His expected loss: $100,000. To the north, meanwhile, Richard Cowin, a black- cherry grower in Wapato, Wash., watched downheartedly as his crop began to shrivel...
Country music now holds about 10% of the recording market (down from 15% in 1981). Nashville music executives insist, however, that everything is turning around. Forecasts like that are as reliable as the 6 o'clock weather, but at the moment Nashville seems to have the talent to back up its boast. "I know that country music is going out to a lot of kids," Travis says. "You see a lot of teenagers and even little kids who know the words to the songs." There still may not be an overabundance of youth at a typical country concert...
Such tactics are not unique to the recent past; generations of Harvard students have fallen victim to "spring fever," tending to engaging in activism as the slush disappears and the weather warms. In the spring of 1952, students rioted to demonstrate their support for Pogo--a popular cartoon character--for President. In 1961, thousands of undergraduates marched on President Pusey's house to protest the College's decision to write diplomas in English...