Word: wind
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...stillness that worried firefighters most. The wildfires that now annually singe Southern California came early this year, spreading slowly from drought-stricken wilderness to the foothills near Los Angeles. Fire season is usually worst in October, when the hot Santa Ana winds blow over the San Gabriel Mountains. But this inferno needed no wind--the Station fire in Angeles National Forest burned more than 100,000 acres (40,500 hectares), threatened thousands of homes and killed two firefighters in the dry heat of late summer. The stillness kept the flames from spreading quickly--a climatologist called it the "Jabba...
...failed to win over the public; two thirds of voters opposed the tax in a poll published by Paris Match days before the announcement. Denis Baupin, Paris's green deputy mayor, likened it to "treating a gravely ill patient with aspirin." (Watch TIME's video: "The Truth About Wind Power...
...conference, said Magna had come up with the best offer. "Magna has a great manufacturing culture and it enjoys the support of German labour unions, and the funding is there. It makes sense," said Smith. But he also warned of job-cuts. Magna's bid outlined a plan to wind down production at GM's factory in Antwerp, Belgium, and shift some production from a Spanish plant to Germany. Magna executives have said that 10,000 jobs might be axed across Europe. Opel's union chief, Klaus Franz, welcomed news of the deal. "I'm pleased and I'm relieved...
...protagonists: Gaspar Heredia, a Mexican night watchman at a camp ground in the Spanish coastal town of Z; Remo Morán, a Chilean novelist running several businesses in the town; and Enric Rosquelles, a deputy to the mayor of Z. The seemingly tenuous connections between the three men wind progressively tighter around a pair of vagrant women and a beautiful Spanish figure skater. A voracious reader in general and an avid fan of popular cinema and genre fiction, Bolaño punctuates the beginning of a long penchant for the referential with an invocation of detective novels...
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