Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Measures to provide developing countries with some degree of economic security by insulating their export earnings from "the swings and shocks" of such "natural and man-made disasters" as weather and changes in the business cycle. If export income dropped, the countries would be able to borrow compensatory funds from a proposed new $10 billion "development security facility" of the International Monetary Fund. This would enable these countries to proceed on schedule with their development plans. For the poorest countries, the loans might be turned into outright grants, financed by the sale of some of the IMF'S gold...
Bill Talbert, director of the U.S. Open at Forest Hills, was hot under the collar-and the weather was not to blame. As the nation's most prestigious tennis tournament got under way last week, six of the men players, including top-seeded Jimmy Connors, were not ready. The reason: they were worn out from competing in other tournaments that had ended only the day before. "Golf doesn't permit this," snapped Talbert as he announced the postponement of their matches. "You don't see Jack Nicklaus unprepared for the U.S. Open. Tennis is not structured enough...
...behavior. A pre-industrial world-whether one hunts animals or tends flocks, cuts wood or digs coal, cultivates the soil or fishes the seas-is primarily a game against nature. One's experience of this world is conditioned by the vicissitudes of the seasons, the character of the weather, the exhaustion of the soils. The forces to be overcome are tangible, if capricious. An industrial world is a game against fabricated nature. It is a world where man is hitched to the machine, overpowered by the size and power of the machine, yet also enlarged by the sense...
...retail cost of food will rise no more for the rest of the year than it did in July alone. Their reasoning: most meat and poultry prices appear to have peaked, and some have already declined at the wholesale level. In addition, the July spurt resulted partly from bad weather that hurt grain and vegetable crops. During all of 1975, the department forecasts, food prices will rise 9%; that is more than its previous prediction of 6% to 8%, but would still indicate that most of the rise is over...
...bulk of U.S. farm land, more than 60% of Soviet grain fields lie far above the 49th parallel (see map), where rainfall is sparse, the sun less powerful and the growing seasons short; frost hits large tracts in Siberia in early September. According to Soviet farm authorities, favorable weather conditions prevail about once every four years. This year there were two damaging developments. A freakishly warm winter failed to provide the essential protective coat of snow for the winter wheat, hurting the crop. Then, just as the spring plantings of corn and wheat were sprouting, a hot June parched...