Dan Cook, owner of Harry L Cook, a 95-year-old chain of dry cleaners (with three locations) in Syracuse, N.
But when the Red Sox finally did win the World Series 18 years later, breaking an 86-year dry spell, Buckner says several Red Sox players immediately telephoned him.
Last year, India received less rain in the first half of the June-September monsoon season than usual, hitting western India, which has endured a two year-long dry spell, particularly hard.
Cross St Michan's Church immediately off your list: behind iron doors, a narrow stone staircase descends to its crypt where the ghoulish remains of up to 800-year-old bodies have been preserved by the dry air.
Savio's death was initially ruled an accident, after neighbors found the 40-year-old aspiring nurse's body in a dry bathtub at home.
But as a wise 17-year-old wonder boy pointed out, at least the dry cleaning was pretty sweet.
"I don't remember anytime when it was this dry, this early, " the 42-year-old farmer said.
In the meantime, an exceptionally hot, dry summer has withered nearly three-quarters of this year's crops.
While salons have received the most violations so far this year, in 2011 laundry and dry-cleaning businesses received 272 violations, compared with 269 for salons.
Departed pets of all persuasions spend up to one year in hulking, freeze-dry metal drums before they are painstakingly preserved and returned to their owners.
The case for more expensive coffee is growing stronger every week: Colombia had a smaller-than-normal harvest last year, and dry conditions in Brazil this year have pinched supply even tighter.
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Lisbon, Portugal, which is located in the path of the Gulf Stream, averages the most daily hours of sunlight year-round thanks to its dry air and stable climate (much like southern California in the U.S.).
That was followed by an online dry-cleaning service called PurpleTie, which crumpled after a year and a half.
With the real possibility that the policy-driven demand for wind turbines would dry up in any given year, companies were understandably wary of investing in large manufacturing facilities in the United States.
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"If you look at the dry peat beneath your feet, you will see traces of 3, 000-year-old cotton grass, " he said.
"When I was a kid in the '50s ... it got real dry, but nothing like this, " said Marvin Helms, a 70-year-old farmer and rancher in central Arkansas who was compelled to sell his beef cattle after being short on feed.
The company says that these reservoirs will provide year-round water supplies in areas that currently suffer during the dry season.
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When restless New York City hedge fund manager Robert Fairchild watches the Baltic Dry Cargo Index plunge 97%, registering an all-time high and a 25-year low within the span of just six months, he decides to buy a ship.
"Glaciers provide about 15% of the La Paz water supply throughout the year, increasing to about 27% during the dry season, " said co-author Alvaro Soruco from the Institute of Geological and Environmental Investigations in Bolivia.
For a truly spectacular case of regional uproar, look at the national water plan unveiled in September, a huge scheme to transfer a cubic kilometre of water a year from (mainly) the Ebro, in the north, to the dry south-east.
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