The recent decrease in rainfall has occurred during the country's dry season, and has thus affected only the second rice crop, which accounts for a fifth of the total in a normal year.
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And in places like California (the second largest rice growing state in the U.S.), weeds are now resistant to almost every (legal) chemical known to humankind.
Darwin Barney singled leading off and was sacrificed to second, and Rice relieved Harvey.
The Clinton Administration tried and failed with its Agreed Framework of 1994, and the Bush Administration tried and failed in its second term with Condoleezza Rice's ploy to remove North Korea from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terror.
Sometime, when sitting with my second brother around some good rice whiskey, we say that our youngest brother is the brightest of all.
Overall, Rice ranks as the second best offensive player of the mid '70s to mid '80s, right behind Hall-of-Famer Mike Schmidt.
Sen Kerry was Mr Obama's second choice, after UN Ambassador Susan Rice became embroiled in controversy over last September's raid on a US consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Rice struck out McCann for the second out and was replaced by Greg Burke.
The lefty took the loss his previous two appearances, including the series opener when Wigginton scored from second on Matt Carpenter's infield hit off Rice's leg.
The lefty took the loss his previous two appearances, including the series opener Tuesday when Wigginton scored from second on Matt Carpenter's infield hit off Rice's leg.
After the second world war, dwarf varieties of wheat and rice (which overcame the problem that heavily fertilised crops in hot countries grew too tall and fell over) boosted developing-country output.
The Mets made some cuts Friday: Non-roster pitcher Scott Rice beat out Robert Carson as the second left-hander in the bullpen to make his first major league roster in his 15th professional season.
Kevin Rice and Luke Cometti scored within a 44-second span for the Orange to tie it, but Yale had a chance to reclaim the lead when Conrad Oberbeck took a shot that Lamolinara managed to snare with 1:21 left.
Remember the Chinese fable of the mighty emperor who agreed to give a wily supplicant one grain of rice for the first square on a chess board, double that for the second square, double again for the third and so on, before he realised that he would be giving away his whole kingdom's supply before the board was half-finished.
Mr Bush's formula for making his administration more efficient in the second term has been to send his most loyal White House policy advisers (such as Condoleezza Rice and Margaret Spellings) to run various cabinet departments.
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