Medical researchers who attract studies reap the benefits of such rainmaking with bigger research budgets and career advancement.

Mr. Suozzi's prodigious political rainmaking will come in handy this fall.

It looks to me like a very high-powered version of the old rainmaking spells the Indians used out in Arizona.

A truly scientific approach to rainmaking awaited the end of World War II.

The man insists it was not for poor work but poor "rainmaking," the vital knack of fetching new business. "

This was clever rainmaking because Mr. Hernandez, then 55, was no ordinary cutter of ordinary hair.

"Kit- iara's strength, Rainspot's rainmaking.

Mr. Myerson groused privately about Mr. Kuhn's limited rainmaking.

He pushes to steer the conversation toward the many boards of nonprofit organizations on which he serves, the real estate work and other rainmaking at the firm, his two daughters.

The term rainmaking is also applied to political fund-raising; for example, United States president Barack Obama was described as a rainmaker in his effort to raise money for other politicians.

When he founded HELP in 1986, his detractors said, it was because his rainmaking had become a liability for the Governor's re-election campaign that year, not to mention his own political prospects.

Thunder was associated with the Revelation story of death and rebirth (see, for example, Rev. 8: 5), with Australian rainmaking, with the Grail story lightning, and with the origin of drama.

After using the Shrinking Chemical on Underdog and Sweet Polly, he uses his Rainmaking Machine to make it rain Shrinking Water all over the city, and he even shrinks Cad.

Kaset Green Hawk is an aerial display team of the Bureau of Royal Rainmaking and Agricultural Aviation (KASET) of Thailand formed from rainmaking aircraft and crews.