Word: weather
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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bombards the planet with radiation and particles, causing unusually brilliant auroras, communications blackouts and power failures. But it also gives scientists a fresh opportunity to solve some of the mysteries surrounding the star that provides the earth with energy, drives the weather and sustains life itself...
...woods to check promising trees himself. "I use logs that would be almost useless to commercial furniture makers, with their concern for regular grain and thin veneers," he adds. "If a tree has had a joyful life it produces a beautiful grain. Other trees have lived unhappily -- bad weather or a terrible location. We use both kinds...
...Once upon a time we couldn't clean our streets," explains Vellucci. "In the wintertime we couldn't plough them, and in the summer-time, during the good weather, we couldn't sweep them. And the reason is that a lot of the students would leave their automobiles parked and then go home, like, to New York and California, on furlough...
...while legend has it that it never rains on a Harvard graduation, the University has still made plans for signs of showers. Should the weather grow bad, Harvard will provide indoor viewing areas in the Science Center and the houses, and Commencement processions will start at Widener Library instead of Johnston Gate...
Romer, Pena and other boosters decried the frequent and long delays that have already become legendary at Stapleton, a point seconded by Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner on a visit during the campaign. The field's two main runways are too close together for simultaneous instrument landings; in bad weather only one can be used. Airport planners contend that a new field could be financed without any tax money. They expect to receive $500 million from Washington and to raise the rest by selling bonds that would be redeemed by fees charged to airlines and concessionaires...