1.   At this time the whole of England was suffering from the effects of the disastrous harvests of the previous two summers.

2.   Sugar workers here said equipment failures were clearly one of the main factors in the disastrous harvest that ended only in June, about two months later than normal.

3.   With food stocks dangerously diminished by a disastrous harvest and the economy still reeling, Russia is headed into a winter of deprivation and discontent.

4.   Dutch leek farmers have sown the seeds for a disastrous harvest after a delivery mixup left them with summer leek seeds instead of the hardier winter variety.

5.   Isolated, communist North Korea is desperate for help to revive its failing economy and avert famine after three disastrous harvests due to floods and drought.

6.   Much of the North Korean population has been weakened by two years of disastrous harvests due to floods, Wahlstroem said.

7.   The heat spell compounds fears of a disastrous harvest at a time when the Agriculture Department predicts world supplies will be extremely tight in the face of strong demand.

8.   The North has been plagued by a disastrous harvest aggravated by economic mismanagement.

9.   The North has been stricken by disastrous harvest aggravated by economic mismanagement.

10.   The North has been plagued by a disastrous harvest.