21.   A harsh winter will just add to their attractiveness.

22.   A harsh winter delayed Canadian wheat sales, diverting business to the U.S.

23.   A new round of fighting erupted in Afghanistan, sending more people into flight in a country already parched by drought and frozen by an unusually harsh winter.

24.   A water main break in a harsh Kansas winter caused an outbreak when contamination from the ground entered the pipeline.

25.   But after a harsh winter, the real outdoors may be too overpowering all at once.

26.   But for now, there are tests under harsh winter field conditions for every soldier on every level of the chain of command.

27.   But many reputable biologists believe that recent declines in the herd have been caused by unusually harsh winters and dry summers, not by wolves.

28.   But nothing could be done about the harsh winter, which kept workers at home several times and backlogged the processsing of refunds, he said.

29.   But many of the people who claimed property in Antler built shacks that could not withstand the harsh winter.

30.   But the harsh Afghan winter will hamper American and British ground actions and compound the plight of refugees fleeing the fighting.