Ten years of drought had left the area a wasteland.

Each truck would have a set pull time when it would leave for the disposal site and be replaced by an empty truck.

You can cut the corp bullspeak, Ms. Serra, there's really no reason for it. After all, we're old friends, you and I.

Yet in the event, population continued to grow – even though signs began to appear that coitus interruptus was beginning to be used systematically to reduce family size.