Word: drought
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Last year we survived the drought by learning not to waste a drop of water. Now it's time for a new California drought: a scarcity of the tax money to be drawn from irate homeowners. Let the bureaucrats cut back on their bloated budgets and practice fiscal conservation. Tax money can be just as precious as water when the sources...
White House economists, perhaps too optimistically, expect a food-cost rise of about 6% this year, on top of last year's 8% increase. Beef will lead the parade. Over the past two or three years, high feed costs and drought made cattle raising unprofitable. Beef supplies piled up and prices fell, so ranchers cut back their herds even more...
Newly written polydox texts for children banish Bible stories as unedifying and untrue. Youths are taught that Abraham did not enter the Promised Land be cause of a covenant with God but because of a drought in Ur. Instead of the bar mitzvah (son of the commandments) rite, the polydox now use the baal mitzvah (master of the commandments), signifying that a youngster is able to decide for himself what...
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Officials at the National Weather Service in Washington blamed the storm on a system of intense high pressure that has been meandering back and forth across Canada all winter. A similar system, known to forecasters as a "blocking high," caused California's two-year drought. This winter the Canadian high has been spraying snow and cold in seemingly haphazard, unpredictable directions, plunging temperatures to the 20s in Atlanta and setting snowfall records in places like Valdez, Alaska, which has had more than 63 in. so far. Meteorologists frankly admit that they understand very little about "blocking highs"-except that...