单词 | rainmaking |
例句 | So perhaps your daughter detours to law school to become a rainmaking corporate lawyer. Will Robots Take Our Children’s Jobs? 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z At a time when parts of the United States find themselves afflicted by drought, Washington seems a rainmaking place. Gray Friday brought rain in the morning, afternoon and evening 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z With a recent experiment providing the first unambiguous evidence that cloud seeding can increase snowpack levels, research into artificial rainmaking is undergoing a small renaissance. Cloud seeding gains steam as West faces worsening droughts 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z In Ida’s case, he said, conditions were ripe “for rainmaking and it all came to fruition along the I-95 corridor.” EXPLAINER: How Ida can be so deadly 1000 miles from landfall 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Trying to control the weather is nothing new: People once performed rainmaking dances and offered sacrifices in the hopes that the gods would end droughts. Shockingly, Trump isn’t the first to propose nuking hurricanes 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z The mechanical din was from a rainmaking machine. Perspective | The District is ready for its close-up: More memories of D.C. films 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z “Forests are complex self-sustaining rainmaking systems, and the major driver of atmospheric circulation on Earth,” Makarieva says. A controversial Russian theory claims forests don’t just make rain—they make wind 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z That’s true not just of the rainmaking pastimes like football and basketball but also field hockey and fencing. California’s Endorsement-Deal Law and the Unintended Consequences of the N.C.A.A. 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Murphy was ready for it and hit a rainmaking drive out of the park. Rich Hill not sharp in return, but it takes extras for the Diamondbacks to beat the Dodgers 8-5 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Harvey, a Category 4 hurricane at landfall, oriented itself perfectly as it developed to maximize the rainmaking power of an overheated Gulf of Mexico. Harvey and Irma aren’t natural disasters. They’re climate change disasters 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Facing a nasty primary challenge from the left back home, Lincoln proposed forcing banks to spin off their rainmaking derivative trading units. Analysis | The Finance 202: The road to Dodd-Frank rewrite runs through red-state Democrats 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Near the end of Make It Rain, Harper lists the current challenges of climate change, wondering whether rainmaking will make a comeback to alleviate water shortages. Meteorology: Weather makers : Nature : Nature Research 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z O'Leary is a political neophyte, best known as one of the rainmaking tycoons on ABC's Shark Tank where hopeful entrepreneurs pitch their fledgling companies, in the hopes of securing a potentially lucrative investment. Kevin O'Leary: Canada's Donald Trump? - BBC News 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Renewed attention on rainmaking ceremonies as the way to solve the growing problem is deterring some farmers from making those changes to how they work, he said. Traditional rainmaking ceremonies resurge in parched Zimbabwe 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Most of the business comes through word-of-mouth, but Wolz does his share of rainmaking. Mom’s kitchen table talks shaped a mission to make money while doing good 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Institute of Peace, and acting as a director for rainmaking defense giant Raytheon. This man might run the Pentagon if Donald Trump wins 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Harper's exclusive focus on state-run projects unfortunately prevents examination of the plethora of private rainmaking efforts in the United States and elsewhere during the twentieth century. Meteorology: Weather makers : Nature : Nature Research 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z These would be rainmaking kicks, especially in outdoor stadiums — gravity-defying spectacles that all fans would wait to see instead of boring touchdowns. Readers Make Their Presents Known 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z Perhaps she should have written her many rainmaking scenes in Vonnegut’s style, with short, quick chapters, each ending with a carefully crafted punchline. How H.G. Wells missed writing a book that became a Vonnegut classic 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z This is not a room where the sly or evasive can hide, much less morally leukemic billionaires, Chinese gangland shooters, bare-knuckle traders or rainmaking political bosses. The brash New York prosecutor who’s indicting left and right 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z The same rainmaking partner who presided over the Sept. Will Legendary Law Firm Patton Boggs Be Swallowed or Evaporate? 2014-03-03T11:00:06Z He contends that big-firm managers are too focused on maximizing profits for the biggest, most rainmaking partners — at the expense of junior lawyers and the long-term interest of the firm. Is There a 'Lawyer Bubble'? 2013-05-07T11:05:22Z Orville urged the government to support research on controlling large-scale weather systems, not just rainmaking. We tried to weaponize the weather 2013-04-27T19:00:00Z Obviously, G.E.’s rainmaking experiments contain ample grist for comedy, but Strand plays it pretty straight. How H.G. Wells missed writing a book that became a Vonnegut classic 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z While Ms. White is a decorated prosecutor, she has spent the last decade vigorously defending - and billing by the hour - Wall Street's biggest banks, as a rainmaking partner at the white-shoe law firm Debevoise & Plimpton. DealBook: Mary Jo White, Nominee for S.E.C.'s 'New Sherrif,' Has Worn Banks' Hat 2013-01-29T02:35:54Z In his latter days some people laughed at him, not understanding that there was genius in the man, because of his first experience with “rainmaking.” Historic Fredericksburg The Story of an Old Town 2012-04-11T02:00:30.517Z If we examine the Greeks, we discover the same element in such rites as the Attic Thesmophoria, the torch-dance of Demeter, the rainmaking on the Arcadian Mount Lyc�us, with many other examples. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z First, there is the inertia factor; these companies remain quite wealthy, thanks to decades of solid rainmaking. Why is digital advertising so lousy? Industry is too smug to innovate. 2010-05-30T04:00:00Z But rainmaking magic, as Mrs. Langloh Parker shows, is practised with sometimes amazing success among the Euahlayi, who work no magic at all for their totems. The Euahlayi Tribe; a study of aboriginal life in Australia I don't keep mine in bottles, but I have a houseful of thunder and lightning," he most coolly replied; "but if you can bottle lightning you must understand rainmaking. The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile |
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