Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...walled villages. Rainfall is so irregular and water so scarce that for thousands of years peasants of these villages, armed with picks and shovels, have fought one another over rights to the flow of a tiny stream or canal. Summers bring searing heat; the harsh winds of fall and winter spread stinging particles of yellow dust from the Gobi, a desert as empty as Africa's Sahara...
...negotiate in the knowledge that federal officials are pondering just how zealously to prosecute criminal charges of malfeasance. On the other hand, Fitzsimmons is on record as saying that he will not accept anything less than the contract (nearly 40% over three years) that the coal miners won last winter, a settlement that Administration officials, who have shown little facility for handling labor disputes, forced down mine owners' throats. Moreover, a large militant group within the Teamster leadership is ready to scream at any pact that they might view as a "sweetheart contract...
...Every winter the public is treated to a blizzard of year-end statistics purporting to measure the myriad business trends that affect the pocketbooks of everybody. Yet many Americans find that official Government indexes seem contradictory and confusing. The fault lies with the way statistics are compiled and reported...
...less than the inflation rate. Thus the budget for fiscal 1980 looks much more like a "lean and tight" spending program than did the bloated one Carter produced last January. Next year's budget is already a success for OMB Boss James Mclntyre, who came to the job last winter as a fill-in replacement for the fallen Bert Lance, and only recently seems to have taken effective hold of his department. Staffers detect a new crispness in Mclntyre's decisions and report that he often backs up his rulings by saying: "Fm holding firm on that?let him take...
Henson has little time for brooding, even about money. After a few days of business talks in New York, he packed his winter clothes and a new tube of toothpaste and flew to London, where, according to his contract with Grade, the TV series must be taped. Within hours of his arrival, shooting had started. Several of the pig Muppets had started an off-camera fight but had been quelled. Guest Star Harry Belafonte had overcome his initial queasiness at working with shaggy short people and had sung The Banana Boat Song with spirit, even though Cap tain Link Hogthrob...