Word: raining
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...game's first half, neither team accomplished much offensively. The heavy rain was definitely a factor...
...only started to rain harder as the game went on," Caples said. "Obviously the field was wet. There was too much water. So play wasn't quite as fast...
Bill White, director of the forum, said McCain would likely schedule a rain check appearance for the weeks following the Nov. 7 election...
...Brazilian Amazon, roughly 75% of deforestation has occurred within 30 miles of a paved road. Despite laws prohibiting settlement in virgin lands, politicians, who see settlers as voters, have encouraged Brazil's 10 million landless poor to migrate into the interior, torching forest as they go. But the rain forest is not good agricultural land, and many of the farmers sell out to cattle ranchers. The only reason enormous stretches of the forest did not burn down in 1998 was that paved roads did not yet penetrate the most fragile areas...
...irony is that in the end agribusiness will suffer along with everyone else. The destruction of the rain forest could make drought more common all over Brazil, endangering soybean production. In the face of that peril, the government will have to decide whether short-term profits are worth risking an environmental disaster for Brazil--and the whole planet...