Word: winterizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even before the 3,000 delegates arrived at Blackpool's Winter Gardens, the annual Labor Party conference in the Irish Sea resort was shaping up as a struggle between militant leftists and the party's centrists. On one side, determined to win more support for Britain's unpopular 30-week coal miners' strike, was Arthur Scargill, 46, the Marxist president of the National Union of Mine workers. On the other, with an eye on Labor's sagging ratings in the polls, was Party Leader Neil Kinnock...
Each fall, as their mating season approaches, an immense gathering of caribou from northeastern Canada embarks on a migratory trek. Nearly 400,000 strong, the herd pushes its way from Labrador to winter grazing lands near Hudson Bay. This year many of the animals did not make it. At least 9,000 of them, and perhaps twice that number, drowned last week at two swollen river crossings in the remote wilderness of northern Quebec...
Ever since the withdrawal of the U.S. Marines and other contingents of the Multi-National Force last winter, Syria has been the dominant power in Lebanon and has been trying to bring an end to that country's factional fighting. In the past six months there have been several clashes between the Iranian guards and Syrian troops in the Bekaa Valley. In the latest fight, in early September, Syria brought in tanks and forced the guards to return to their camps outside the ancient city of Baalbek. That clash was promptly followed by a surprise visit to Syria...
...nothing else, the U.S. learned last week that its troubles in Lebanon did not end with the withdrawal of the Marine peace-keeping force last winter. Says former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Robert Neumann: "The area is not heating up again. It never cooled down." As for the latest bombing, Neumann predicts grimly, "Fasten your seat belts. There will be more...
...financial dilemma arose last winter when the professor decided to expand the course syllabus with a section on a highly sophisticated computer technique which measures human nerve and membrane functions...