Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under authoritarian rule, Gandhi has restored order to the Indian political scene and, more importantly for her own political future, taken great strides in improving the ailing Indian economy. With the fortuitous assistance of favorable weather patterns during the last growing season, India enjoyed the best grain harvest in its history last year. Farmers managed to amass a reserve supply of 17 million tons of grain--hefty insurance against future famines that will continue to afflict India whenever the monsoons fail again...
...decision to establish a uniform policy comes in the wake of criticism of the University from Medical Area District 65 of the Distributive Workers of America. An article in its recent newsletter objected to the University's insistence that all Medical Area employees report for work regardless of weather conditions...
...University needs an acceptable standard where employees would not be penalized for taking days off because of the weather," Leslie A. Sullivan, Medical Area District 65 organizer, said yesterday...
...Another of our main gripes is the unevenly set policy of the University regarding inclement weather," Sullivan said...
...School has just about as many policies regarding bad weather as departments," Vivienne A. Rubeski, manager of the Medical Area division of the personnel office said yesterday...