Word: weatherize
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...atmosphere has increased in the two centuries since the start of the industrial revolution. By some calculations, the extensive burning of oil and other fossil fuels has added to the shield of carbon dioxide around the earth, resulting in a heightened greenhouse effect that traps heat and changes weather patterns...
...wrong. In Her Own Image would have found a willing publisher if it had been written by someone without an influential spouse to her name. It has most of what blockbusters require these days: sex from the female perspective, an unfulfilled mother and her itchy daughters, and a sympathetic weather system that delivers up heat waves and thunderstorms whenever the plot requires them...
Despite that rapid and spontaneous outpouring, rescue work at Armero proceeded at a slow and frustrating pace. The torrential mudslides washed away roads and bridges, limiting efforts to deliver both rescuers and relief supplies. Foul weather and the continuing down pour of volcanic ash from the smoking mountain kept Colombian helicopters away from Armero until Thursday afternoon. Only on Friday could the U.S. fly in any of the big CH-47 Chinook helicopters, capable of evacuating dozens of people at a time. In the interim, only nine small helicopters, able to carry just a handful of victims each, had flown...
...After the first one, with 86 degree weather, I thought ‘I’m never doing this again,’” he said, but he decided to give the marathon another chance...
...single season home run king, Farkes, is just starting to get healthy. Mann, who has been known to get warm with the weather, is just starting to find his swing. Those two combined for 25 homers last year...