Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unaware of this. She devoted her speech to criticizing farmers for hoarding, middlemen for gouging, black-marketeers and those who patronize them. For the food shortages that have pushed millions to the brink of starvation and caused widespread riots and looting, she offered shallow explanations, blaming the weather rather than mismanagement by India's central and state governments. Perhaps it was not surprising that Blitz, a rambunctious left-wing weekly, began its Independence Day editorial with the question...
...shortages are tilting international balances of economic power, bringing new prosperity to such exporters of raw materials as Australia, Brazil and Argentina, and fanning inflation in the U.S., Europe and Japan. The situation stems largely from a temporary combination of foul weather for crops and metal miners' strikes in Chile and Zambia. But trouble may not be short-lived. World reserve stocks of many major farm goods have been so badly depleted that years of bumper harvests will be needed to rebuild them. The scarcities are also having a snowballing effect; a shortage in one commodity aggravates shortages...
...Japanese business success in Europe, as elsewhere, is the result of careful, detailed planning and attention to what the consumer wants. For example, automaking Toyota began its marketing drive in 1961. Analysts from all departments were sent abroad to collect information on weather conditions, lifestyles, laws and regulations, income levels, road conditions, competition, driving habits and economic and political policies. To gain publicity and technical knowledge through competition with European cars, Toyota's export council ordered participation in international auto shows and rallies. Sales rose steadily-from...
...French are notorious for miscalculating the weather," he said. After the September 1966 test, winds blew nuclear debris over the Fiji Islands. Some debris hit New Zealand as well, he said...
...THERE are other noblemen desiring the kingdom of Corinth: Paidoboron, the weather-beaten visionary of the North, who reads in the stars impending doom; and Koprophoros, the mystic Asiatic, who suggests finally that reason alone is not good enough in Jason's absurd world, and that men cannot deny the passions of their bodies. The philosophical argument is set: reason vs. love, mind vs. body, nature vs. civilization, law vs. chaos. And through it all there is another voyage. John Gardner too, has set out on an impossible quest. Oddly enough he has Jason pronounce his presence...