Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cling to memories of her father and their harrowing experience of hiding in wartime Holland. A young couple begins a new and isolated life in Nevada, believing that "the only marriages that work [are] those where you say the hell with it, and then move out to Nevada or Alaska, or Brazil," only to discover that they are terrified by their separation from the values of society...
...store to watch. Margaret Dadian, chief buyer for Kay Campbell Stores in Evanston, Ill., says of her frequent trips to New York: "I'd miss seeing my grandchildren, but I'd never miss seeing Bloomingdale's." Nordstrom, a company that operates 17 stores in Washington, Oregon and Alaska, makes a point of sending buyers on pilgrimages to Bloomingdale's. "It is a very flexible store," says Merchandiser Jack McMillan. "It's quick to see and develop new lines." In Boston, once-staid Jordan Marsh has patterned part of itself after Bloomingdale's by introducing modern paintings and rock music into...
Americans have been arguing about this since Woodrow Wilson collapsed in Colorado in 1919 after 34 speeches in which he tried vainly to sell the League of Nations. There were new doubts when Warren Harding's health failed in the waters off Alaska in 1923 before he expired in San Francisco. The jet plane has reduced the physical burden of presidential travel, but its very ease encourages...
Subject to veto by either house of Congress, the President in April 1977 could partially exclude from the domestic price ceiling the oil that will begin by then to flow from Alaska. Such a move would raise overall domestic oil prices at a slightly faster rate. On the other hand, the bill would require Ford to jettison the $2 per bbl. tariff that he has imposed on imported oil, which now fetches about $15 per bbl. in the U.S. Other provisions of the bill would require both automakers and appliance manufacturers to improve the energy efficiency of their products, guarantee...
William E. Pings Clear, Alaska...