Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Minnesota's economy is a fairly well-balanced mix of manufacturing, agriculture and services. Fur, northern pine, wheat and iron ore once were the dominant forces. Manufacturing displaced farming as the major source of income in 1952. Though farm and forest products remain a vital part of the economy, the gap has been widening. Over the past ten years, Minnesota has become one of the nation's leading "brain-industry" centers?more than 170 electronic and related technical businesses now employ more than 70,000 people. Food companies, however, still lead the state in employment. Minneapolis-based companies produce more...
Northeastern Minnesota, sometimes called the Arrowhead Country because of its shape, begins at the rugged Misquah Hills and Giants Range, a sharp granite ridge as high as 500 ft. To the southeast rises the Mesabi Range, a rocky belt that used to produce 82% of the nation's iron ore and still yields 63% in iron and taconite, the iron pellets sifted magnetically from huge loads of earth. Below the Canadian border stretch vast expanses of forests and lakes, a region of shaggy and pristine beauty. Timber wolves roam there. Moose can be seen feeding in the clearings. Sometimes...
...vowed in a television address not to resign and "not to be overthrown by a vote of rejection." Whether Greeks voted yes to accept a so-called republic and permit parliamentary elections next year or no to protest abolition of the monarchy, the outcome was the same-continued iron-fisted rule by Papadopoulos. Greeks could not abstain from voting, since by law they must either vote or risk going to jail. The referendum, in short, was a charade...
...Indian-Pacific rushes into its third night, past the gold and nickel of Kalgoorlie, the great iron deposits at Koolyanobbing, and on over the wheat fields of Kellerberrin, glistening under the moon. This is Australia's West...
...Kidd Creek Mine at Timmins, Ont., the world's richest source of zinc and silver as well as a major supplier of copper, lead and cadmium. In addition to its Canadian holdings, Texasgulf owns sulfur mines in Texas and Louisiana, a potash mine in Utah, three iron mines in Australia and woodlands in Pennsylvania. Despite a somewhat desultory performance in the stock market in recent years, Texasgulf has impressive profits. In this year's first half, it earned $22.9 million, almost double last year's rate, on sales of $175 million...