Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although wind shear is invisible to the eye, the conditions that make it probable can be spotted by radar and detected by weather instruments. Any violent thunderstorm, of course, raises a possibility of such dangerous air currents. But the problem in combatting this hazard is that it is capricious, its intensity is unpredictable, and to close down airports every time the wind shear possibility remotely exists would seriously disrupt air travel. U.S. investigators have, in fact, cited wind shear as contributing to the probable cause of only one previous accident: the crash of an Iberia Airlines DC-10 at Boston...
...capital of Port-au-Prince for five times the 300 a bag the peasants receive for it. When it does rain, the soil on the hills is washed away. There is, moreover, virtually no catchment system to conserve the water and free the peasants from the whims of the weather. "Irrigation" generally means hauling water in an old oil can from nearby creeks...
Furthermore, it is unlikely that the U.S. will again suffer the two major blows that so severely aggravated inflation in 1973 and 1974: the quintupling of oil prices and the sharp rise in food costs caused by unusually bad weather round the world. This year's U.S. harvest appears to be big. As for oil prices, they will almost certainly rise again in September, despite Ford's warning to the OPEC cartel last week that another increase would be "very disruptive and totally unacceptable." But the rise, while harmful, will be nowhere near as great...
Fresh Meat/Warm Weather by Joyce Eliason. 145 pages. Harper & Row. $6.95. "How strange it is," the heroine of this fierce and finely tuned little novel is reminded, "that Mormons, like Jews, nurture that feeling of inferiority in themselves while still believing they are God's Chosen People." As the book progresses, that paradoxical condition becomes both a rankling irony and a saving strength...
...young woman who narrates Fresh Meat/ Warm Weather is eagerly honest about everything: her childhood in a family of Jack Mormons (those who do not keep "the Word of Wisdom"); an early marriage that produced two daughters and a desperate infidelity; flight from Salt Lake City to sinful Los Angeles; a second marriage to an aspiring musician who hurries back to the car after his wedding meal so he won't miss the Top 100 on the radio...