Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Packwood, a leader of the opposition: "It allowed the vote changers a graceful way out." By the time it was delivered to Majority Leader Baker on the morning of the vote, the letter had helped many Senators, including Gorton, Democrat James Exon of Nevada and Republican Frank Murkowski of Alaska, find a convenient means of justifying their decision to support the sale...
...Santa Catalina is now the Japanese Hong Kong, a center of industrial activity whose smoggy air often fouls the otherwise clear skies of sleepy Los Angeles. Defeated by Japan at the Battle of Tsushima Strait in 1905, Russia was forced to give up Russian America, sometimes known as Alaska. Now, under its young and aggressive new Tsar, Nicholas VII, it seems determined to regain that conquered territory and plunge the world into what could well be the first world...
...University of Alaska...
Even Republican leaders expressed skepticism that Congress would go along with the President a second time. Said Senate Majority Whip Ted Stevens of Alaska: "I just can't believe he's going to get those across-the-board cuts." Dole, a leader in both the Finance and Agriculture Committees, predicted: "The Senate will be slow to cut any more in the nutrition area, as I am." Nor were the financial markets encouraging. Stock prices fell sharply Friday, the Dow Jones hitting a new 17-month low of 824.01, and bond prices also plummeted...
Embarking from Seattle, the Cavalier plows north through the stomach-turning swells of the Gulf of Alaska and the whipping gales of Bristol Bay. It squirts through the Bering Strait and after two weeks reaches the most perilous leg of the 3,200-mile journey: the 270-mile trip from Wainwright on the western flanks of northern Alaska to Prudhoe Bay. Here the tugs putter along at four to five knots, creeping above shoals that, in places, lie only 5 ft. beneath hulls still weighted down with 100,000 gal. of diesel fuel. Kardonsky, 56, looks up from his charts...