Word: columbian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard Business School's boat drifted by, its coxswain trying to scream more horsepower out of his exhausted future pinstripers in a futile attempt to catch Brown's varsity team. The Columbian crew-meisters on the bank gasped at the B-School team's audacity for having dollar signs on their scull blades and on the backs of their jerseys...
...probable chain of events follows, making the incumbent Republican President more frustrated with his country's helplessness. Eventually he decides to conduct covert military operations against the Columbian kingpins. Sound more familiar...
Unfortunately, things go wrong, and word leaks out about the covert action. With the election months away, the administration panics and decides to cut its losses, covering up the operation and abandoning its para-military groups deep in the Columbian jungle. Sound really, really familiar...
...That's Columbian justice for you. Maybe the ref was afraid of the drug lords...
...marginal farmlands around the world. The Chinese, threatened by a desert that is spreading at the rate of 600 sq. mi. a year, are planting a "green Great Wall" of grasses, shrubs and trees 4,350 miles across their northern region. In Peru archaeologists have revived a pre- Columbian agricultural system that involves dividing fields into patterns of alternating canals and ridges. The canals ensure a steady supply of water, and the nitrogen-rich sediment that gathers on their floors provides fertilizer for the crops...