Word: wetter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sahel nations are involved in a scheme, dubbed Solar, that would allow nomads to continue to raise cattle on marginal Sahelian rangeland. But when it comes time for fattening before marketing, the time when the cattle make their greatest inroads on pastureland vegetation, they will be marched to the wetter and hardier lands in the south...
...keeps in shape with aquatic acrobatics, using plastic water wings. "I try to undulate like a sea anemone with them," she says. "When I wear them, I feel that I'm in a different world. It's kind of like floating around in outer space, only wetter...
...commuters waded through kneehigh slush and the less graceful slipped on ice, life at Harvard went on a little wetter than usual yesterday...
...some of the world's best skiing. "Powder" snow, the best of all, is often hip-deep in Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho and Utah. The snow is more granular and less plentiful in the East, where the air is wetter and the mountains smaller than in the West. Eastern slopes are also icier and thus harder to negotiate. Yet skiers who practice on this Eastern "boiler plate" learn of necessity to dig their ski edges deeper into the hill and tend to have better control. The quality of the snow at most European resorts lies somewhere in between the West...
...rest of the measures represent a grab-bag of concerns, large and small. Some are old standbys: fluoridation programs, school bonds, lottery and bingo proposals, and wetter or drier liquor laws. Others are new either in scope or in concept. One example is California's incredibly stiff anti-obscenity proposition (TIME, Oct 23). Among the more interesting...