Word: coasts
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...York-New Orleans Southern Crescent, considered the best passenger train in the nation; the Washington-Montreal Montrealer; and one of the two trains running between New York and Florida. Those likely to be dropped: the Chicago-Miami Floridian, the New York-Kansas City National Limited, the Chicago-Seattle North Coast Hiawatha. Since the Senate bill resembles the one passed by the House, the Administration will probably grudgingly go along with the more limited cutback...
Because various groups have blocked the projects, the U.S. has built no oil refinery on the East Coast since 1957, no deepwater port that can take a 300,000-ton tanker. Given the power of the many single-issue factions, given the complexity of the restrictions, how can the U.S. ever develop its energy...
Ironic in Nicaragua's case is that the U.S. participated in negotiations felling the government it had carefully planted there in 1934. That year, as U.S. Marine boats reluctantly pulled away from Mosquito Coast after 25 years of virtual control in the area, a U.S.-educated National Guard remained. That officer, Anastasio, "Tacho" Somoza Garcia, after nearly disposing of Nicaragua's President, established the iron-fisted dictatorship which he passed down to his sons, Luis and Anastasio Somoza Debayle...
...Aquarium and right on the Blue. Line. You can get a friend with a boat. You can swim, if you're not adverse to a little oil. Or you can just look out the window of your 727 as you start the return flight back to the coast...
...Tempest takes place in a single afternoon on an island in Bermuda (as the text itself informs us), which lay unsettled until Sir George Gowers and his crew were shipwrecked on its coast in 1609. Several accounts of the expedition and wreck circulated in England the next year, and these provided Shakespeare with much of his material. The dramatist, in order to make the island a way station between Africa and Naples, simply transferred his Bermuda from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean...