Word: mid-may
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...made a mockery of the odds as they opened up a lead in mid-May and charged to their first pennant since...
Tropical dry forests differ from rain forests in that their precipitation is seasonal. During the rainy period, the landscape is verdant, but during the five to six months of the year that are rainless (early December to mid-May in Costa Rica), many trees lose their leaves. Unlike the temperate zone's deciduous hardwood forests, however, they do not become fully dormant. Instead, the bare trees flower and bear fruit, which nourishes a variety of mammals and insects. Centuries ago, such vegetation covered 60% of the forest regions of Latin America, India, Southeast Asia, Africa and northern Australia...
...mid-May, Bok emerged from his office and addressed a group of students on his South Africa policy. His reasons for maintaining Harvard's investments in South Africa were two-fold. Firstly, he argued that divestment would only harm Black South Africans. (They would lose, he argued, the protection of the Sullivan principle which rate how well American companies work to end discrimination against South African Blacks in the workplace.) Secondly, he said that divestment would threaten the University's independence as an educational institution...
Elizabeth Campbell Elliott, Bachrach's campaign manager, attributed the increase in popularity to a $100,000 media campaign that started in mid-May, after the other polls had already been taken. Television and radio spots depict the candidate as a determined underdog...
...King Hussein would gain Iraqi support in his drive to undermine Arafat and isolate the P.L.O. In time, the shifting alliances might also help ease the situation in Lebanon, where fighting last week between Shi'ite Muslims and Palestinians was particularly brutal. The Shi'ites launched the offensive in mid-May in an effort to prevent the P.L.O. from re-establishing the Lebanese power base it lost...