Word: saskatchewan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spring bloomed in our fair Saskatchewan community, I decided it was time for the school of which I am principal to have its first postwinter fire drill. I pulled the alarm, and the students quickly and quietly filed out. One student stopped me cold with a sincere question: "Did anyone go out to check to see if there was somebody with a gun out there before you pulled the alarm?" I will never conduct a fire drill again without remembering Jonesboro. JIM ROBSON Kincaid, Sask...
Following the film, the crowd heard from Blaine C. Favel, former grand chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations and current Canadian counselor for international indigenous matters...
...From Saskatchewan to Texas, from Montana to Ohio hardly any rain had fallen for a month. As dry day followed dry day crop estimators lopped 2,000,000 bu. from their wheat prediction every morning. Before the week was out the winter wheat estimate had fallen...
Scientists predicted, for example, that in western North America the south should be colder and wetter than last winter, while the north would be warmer and drier. That's just what happened: at one point this winter, it was snowing in Guadalajara, Mexico, while thermometers in Saskatchewan registered in the 50s. That doesn't mean the scientists are always right, of course. They can make broad-brush predictions of El Nino's effects without being able to forecast exactly what will happen in any given place. Some of the early prediction scenarios--no snow for the Olympic Winter Games...
...have a movie theater or even a stoplight. Yet it is the home of a genuine multinational: Link Snacks, Inc., which rings up export sales of as much as $12 million a year to more than a dozen countries and stations sales representatives in Tokyo, Moscow and Regina, Saskatchewan, as well as Minneapolis, Minn. Not bad, considering 1) the company was in Chapter 11 only 10 years ago; and 2) its products--meat snacks, especially beef jerky--are traditionally associated with 18-to-35-year-old American cowboys, both real and drugstore variety...