Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This is the first protest against the oil companies," Jeremy Rifkin, a staff member for the PBAC, said yesterday. "The Oil Party will be covered by the national media, and for this reason, we urge everyone to turn out, no matter what the weather is like. We need winter soldiers, not just sunshine patriots...
...from a squeeze on mortgage money, have severe new worries. Construction men rage that doling out fuel on the basis of "year-earlier" usage (that is, so much less this month than in December 1972) will unfairly penalize an industry whose project starts are erratically timed, depending on the weather and the availability of workers and contracts. Materials shortages loom too: the manufacture of lime, a key ingredient in cement, requires more energy than any other product made in the U.S., and diesel fuel to run construction machinery is scarce. Economists at a Washington conference sponsored by the Federal Home...
...called their morning report in to Ellis Ski Information. They made no mention of the fact that it was raining; only that the snow conditions were excellent--on a 75ft. swath of snow. Ellis (800-243-6600 is their toll-free number) tries to keep up with all the weather and latest changes, but many tired fools have arrived after a five hour drive to find a big puddle of a sheet of ice at the base of the slopes. A 75 cent investment for a three minute phone call may be the best one you've ever made...
...weather had decided to dramatize the change that has come over A1 Terner's life since he entered the Business School; the feeling of anguish that wrenches his insides every time he crosses the bridge over the Charles...
...writing becomes more objectionable when Cohen moves onto topics somewhat more sensitive than the weather. Examining a professor's suicide, he calls the chapter "An Unexpected End" (which is itself mildly obnoxious) and then goes on to write...