Of course, the U.S. has experienced many severe droughts during the past century, including the Dust Bowl that produced major ecological and agricultural damage throughout American and Canadian prairies from 1930-36 (and in some areas, until 1940).
But even downloading, which opens the intriguing question of whether you own or lease a digital file (more on that in a future column), may be a thing of the future past: left in the dust as streaming becomes ever more available, reliable, and cheaper.
On the main side, the front side of our ice cube tray, if you will, we exposed that when we flew past the comet, so we caught the comet dust.
The symphonious clamor was everywhere, filling the sky like the cloud of red dust that arrowed past them to the south and left the sky dim, it was the great processional of the Union armies, but of no more substance than an army of ghosts.
Art during the past 10 years has left the Big Board in the dust.
Highly leveraged private equity buyers have left real estate investment trusts in the dust over the past three years, but the REITs are now in a strong cash position, operating with usually no more than 50% leverage and with access to relatively cheap money.
Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana kicked up a lot of dust at the Republican National Committee meeting this past week in Charlotte.
After the dust has settled and the scare now in the past, those same equities may now have to be repurchased at higher prices.
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Across the border in Guatemala, we pulled past a large luxury SUV with blacked-out windows and large dust-covered chrome rims.
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Water shortages, dust bowls and urbanization have cut China's agricultural land base by 10% in the past decade.
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