21.   Even sowing that ground is going to be a fight, he reckons, as severe winter weather has left the soil too ravaged to work.

22.   Federal Express Corp. stock could fall after the company said fiscal third-quarter earnings fell by more than half as severe winter weather hampered overnight shipments.

23.   He was describing the remarkably wide area of the country that was hammered by severe winter weather in the last week.

24.   In addition, three male climbers died in severe winter conditions.

25.   In January, severe winter weather shut down big chunks of the country for days at a time.

26.   In one sign that the aberrations of a severe winter will eventually recede, futures prices have started to dip well below the price of spot sales.

27.   In the past, fighting in the region has diminished during the severe winters.

28.   Indiana stocks fell, led down by Home Federal Bancorp, as trading was cut short by severe winter storms.

29.   It said the increase reflected currency movements, the costs associated with higher load factors and severe winter weather.

30.   It may die back in severe winters but returns in the spring.