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rain-making An attempt to induce rainfall by ‘seeding’ supercooled water clouds. See also
cloud seeding.
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China leads world in rainmaking
Newspaper article from: China Daily; 6/5/2006; 422 words
; ...National Meteorological Bureau. The rainmaking army uses rockets, artillery and aircraft...in the past five years. They sowed rainmaking chemicals which brought down 210 billion...flights between 2001 and 2005. Meanwhile rainmaking rockets and shells had been used 1...
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Recast: China leads world in rainmaking
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 6/4/2006; 444 words
; Recast: China leads world in rainmaking JINAN, June 4 (Xinhua) -- The...five years. The aircraft sowed rainmaking chemicals that brought down 210...2001 to 2005, said the official. Rainmaking rockets and shells have been used...
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Mexico Results Spur New Look at Rainmaking
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...helped to spur worldwide interest in rainmaking, as well as continuing scientific controversy...big proto-raindrops that speed the rainmaking process. In the "cold cloud" process...silver iodide or dry ice, the original rainmaking technique developed by Langmuir's...
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Rainmaking Reduces Drought in Southernmost Island Province
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire; 5/19/1999; 295 words
; Artificial rainfall resulting from a massive rainmaking project conducted over the past two weeks has greatly reduced...rained 157 times during the half-month period due to the rainmaking project, including drizzles in 86 towns, moderate rain...
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Responsible rainmaking: how to build your practice.
Magazine article from: Trial; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...the only option. But there are many effective methods of rainmaking that can be more dignified than advertising, which remains...business in this way are incompatible. Lawyers need clients, so rainmaking in some form must be pursued. Are we stuck with slick...
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Right as rain: want to get your business on the media's radar? Start rainmaking.(Flash)(media monitoring services)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Entrepreneur; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; April is for rainmaking. Rainmakers bring in business bucks...raise ink. The simple secret of PR rainmaking? PPT. (Ironically, it's also...TRACK YOUR RESULTS. Monitor your rainmaking as you would a weather report or storm...
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Thai king to receive patent for "rainmaking technique"
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 5/29/2003; 324 words
; Thai king to receive patent for "rainmaking technique" BANGKOK, May 29 (Xinhua) -- Thai King Bhumibol...Department. He said the king's invention -- "artificial rainmaking technique" involving two spraying chemicals on warm and cold...
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Scientists give thumbs down to rainmaking technology
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 11/23/2007; 610 words
; ...Nov. 23 -- International scientists have already given rainmaking technology funded by the Australian government the thumbs...ions in the atmosphere. This is very different from existing rainmaking technology, which relies on seeding existing clouds, and...
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LMA Southern California Chapter Presents ``The Essence of Rainmaking -- Client Satisfaction!'' Thursday, Oct. 6; Save This Date!: Thursday, October 6, 2005 -- 11:30 a.m., The Clubhouse Restaurant, Luncheon Seminar.
Business Wire; 9/26/2005; 558 words
; ...welcome one of America's most dynamic speakers, business coaches and experts in rainmaking who will take us through a motivating session on "The Essence of Rainmaking -- Client Satisfaction!" Jeff Wolf Highlights: --President of Wolf Management...
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'Rainmaking' Made easy. (Short Takes).(Relationship development should motivation behind every marketing activity)
Magazine article from: Rural Telecommunications; 7/1/2003; 700+ words
; ...ways in order to become a rainmaker, but nothing could be further from the truth," according to Mark Maraia, author of "Rainmaking Made Simple: What Every Professional Must Know." By making relationship development the motivation behind every marketing...
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rainmaking
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
rainmaking production of rain by artificial means...disregarded, though it is probable that rainmaking hastens or increases rainfall from clouds...suitable for natural rainfall. Interest in rainmaking has been spurred by factors including...
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Chewa and other Maravi Groups
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...storytelling and songs are central to their customs and beliefs. Much of their folklore dwells on drought, fire, famine, and rainmaking. One of the central figures in Chewa myths is Mbona, a rainmaker among the Mang'anja of Southern Malawi. The story of...
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Acholi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...constituent lineages; a system of redistributive tribute within each polity, with the chief at the center; and royal, often rainmaking, drums as symbols of sovereignty and authority. Over the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, some seventy chiefdoms...
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Celts
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...His glorious Name by such miraculous powers as have just been described in the presence of a heathen people." The art of rainmaking, bringing down fire from the sky, and causing mists, snowstorms, and floods was also claimed by the Druids. Many of the...
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Crystals
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...crystal was widely used for bowls, figurines, and drinking vessels. Magicians in Australia and elsewhere used rock crystal in rainmaking ceremonies. Rock crystal shaped into polished balls was also the favorite material for crystal gazing. (See also Crystal...
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