Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...acting FBI director from May 1972 to April 1973, and also ended a five-year probe aimed at scores of FBI men suspected of abusing their power. That effort grew out of the bureau's drive to track down the 30 or more known members of the Weather Underground, a left-wing group responsible for dozens of Viet Nam-era bombings. A New York City-based FBI unit called Squad 47 broke into the homes of innocent relatives and friends of the fugitive radicals seeking clues to their whereabouts. Sometimes dressed as telephone repairmen, they would pick locks...
...making Poland the first East bloc country to suffer two consecutive declines. Its hard-currency debt to the West has risen to $23 billion; servicing it requires about 80% of its export revenues. Exports are down, largely because coal production is running more than 5% behind projections. Poor weather and absurdly low government price ceilings-a major disincentive to farmers-have contributed to a 12% decline in agricultural output. "Queues existed before, but now we have no food at all," complained a worker at the Ursus tractor factory outside Warsaw last week. Food exports, which earned $1.4 billion last year...
...acceptance speech only to be trapped within earshot of a disc jockey who considers it a felony to fall silent for a second. Some 5,000 radio and TV talk shows fill the air with an oceanic surf of gabble, a big fraction of it as disposable as a weather-caster's strained charm. It is easy to snap off and tune out, but it is not so simple to elude real-life blather. Try to get away from it all, and soon a stage-struck airline captain will be monologuing about terrain miles below and half-obscured...
...Harvard has made a bona fide effort to help the city of Cambridge with its housing shortage." He added that the University ought to be awarded the permits because "private higher education is the principal export industry of New England," and that institutions like Harvard had helped the region weather the recent recession...
...calendar has shortchanged retailers this year. There are only 26 shopping days between Thanksgiving and Christmas, as compared with 32 days a year ago. To offset the fewer business days, merchants in many areas of the country are hoping for cooler weather. Cold and especially snow remind shoppers that Christmas is near and help business. Traditionally, nothing hurts December sales more than soft, balmy weather...