Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most disturbing is that the Northeast outbreaks, affecting 2,119 people and killing eleven of them, struck despite precautions taken specifically to keep the bacteria at bay. Because chickens frequently harbor salmonella in their intestines and contaminate eggshells with their droppings, cracked eggs cannot be sold to retail markets. To pass state and federal inspections, intact ones must be washed with disinfectant before they are shipped. Nonetheless, all the food-poisoning cases blamed on eggs were traced to the grade-A variety, which had been washed and inspected for cracks. This finding has led researchers to suggest that the bacteria...
...cause than ever to fear the unthinkable last week. A French air force Mirage F1 fighter based in Strasbourg and flying in an exercise above southern Germany crashed and exploded in a wooded area about a mile from two nuclear power plants outside the village of Reichersdorf, 50 miles northeast of Munich...
...short, densely populated routes, Amtrak is riding highest of all. More than half its business comes from the Northeast corridor, where trains have surpassed air travel as the most popular form of mass transit. Business travelers on the Bosnywash circuit appreciate the convenience, the wide seats, the reliability in foul weather, and the chance to get some work done. "When you ride a train," says Chicago Bank Executive William McClintic, "you can sit back, relax and avoid the hassles of traffic and airports...
...also said he did not expect to be considered as Dukakis' running mate. Bradley said such a ticket would be too heavily weighted toward the Northeast...
...Dukakis high command is keenly aware that it has a medium without a message. For several weeks the Governor's top advisers had been preparing a major economic address that would define the candidate's agenda in the industrialized Northeast states. But the speech that Dukakis delivered in Chicago late last week seemed to borrow much of its beef from Gephardt's very own plate. Where until recently Dukakis had been direly warning of trade wars, now he was changing his emphasis by reverting to one of his previous themes: tariff protection for companies that agree to modernize their plants...