Word: northeast
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...This committee is an important step toward making Cambridge the first city in the Northeast to fully grapple with the energy crisis," Bell said...
Some sectional bitterness is appearing too. Governors and mayors in the Northeast, an area of aging industries, feel discriminated against. Philadelphia, for example, is struggling to close a projected $137 million budget gap by laying off police and firemen. Finance Director Edward De Seve figures that an end to revenue sharing would cost the city an extra $50 million to $55 million; making up that sum might require a 17% increase in city real estate taxes, on top of a 20% jump already contemplated. De Seve insists that Carter and Congress should target budget cuts on what he derisively calls...
Apart from safety, the biggest problem facing Ugandans is finding enough to eat. The food shortage is most acute in the rural northeast, where U.N. officials estimate that 136,000 people are on the verge of starvation. Savage Karamojong tribesmen, armed with Kalashnikov automatic rifles looted from one of Amin's arsenals, raid villages and harass the missionary outposts where relief food and medicine are distributed. Famine may eventually hit Kampala, where many workers earn 500 shillings ($68) or less a month, barely enough to purchase three bunches of green bananas, the staple of the diet. Complains a Kampala...
Carter aides said last week that despite the wins in the Northeast, Kennedy was too far behind to ever catch up. "It's not all over," Orren insisted, adding that the New York results may force Carter out on the campaign trail...
...extra high speeds, while those to the south slackened. In effect, explains Donald Gilman, the service's chief long-range forecaster, the cold arctic air was blocked, almost as if it were being held back by a great fence, letting warmer, southern air dominate the weather. For the Northeast as well as other parts of the Northern Hemisphere, Gilman's fence meant a December of mild temperatures and little snowfall...