Word: british
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your gratuitous insult to 18th century British Surveyor John Collins in your story on the community split between Canada and the U.S. [Aug. 13] and, by inference, to the profession of surveying is clearly out of bounds...
Then the full force of its 150-m.p.h. winds slammed into the former British colony of Dominica, killing at least 22 people and leaving some 60,000 homeless. The capital of Roseau was flattened in a five-hour assault. The banana crop, mainstay of the island's economy, was totally destroyed. The nearby islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique suffered heavy damage from the winds and torrential rains. So did Puerto Rico, where the storm left at least seven dead...
...armory in Danvers, Mass., turned up in Ulster last year, Blake set out to find out how the I.R.A. runs guns from the U.S. Several sources steered him toward a man who might talk - Peter McMullen, 32, a Belfast-born Catholic who had first deserted from an elite British paratroop battalion to join the Provisional I.R.A., then quit the terrorists. Blake found McMullen hiding out in San Francisco and persuaded him to sit through 18 hours of interviews stretching over four days. The result: a six-part Globe series that, if McMullen is to be believed, last week gave...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia--John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, said yesterday raising bank interest rates to control inflation are "one of the major economic mistakes of our time...
Smith was the last major figure to arrive for a British-sponsored constitutional conference on Rhodesia...