Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marine messengers arrived the morning after the news from Beirut, both in Lincoln and two hours northeast at Kimm's mother's home in Atlantic, Iowa (pop. 7,789). "I think the girls are trying to block it out," says Janet Kimm, his exwife. "I've been trying to get them to break down and get it out of their systems." Kimm, a Marine cook whose chili the girls remember fondly, would have been whipping up Sunday breakfast for some 300 men when the explosion came...
...joined forces with six small Caribbean countries to invade Grenada than the press scrambled to do its job. Within hours, the first wave of more than 300 newspaper, magazine, wire-service, radio and television journalists were arriving on the island of Barbados, which, though some 160 miles northeast of the action, was the closest they could get. But there were no pictures of the combat on television screens that night or the next night, nor any dispatches from newspaper reporters on the ground. Members of the press were not allowed any nearer...
Some areas might actually profit from the shifts. The Northeast, for example, could get a more benign climate, not unlike Florida's. Canada's growing season might lengthen, and some deserts would begin to bloom. In addition, the extra CO2 might increase the rate of photosynthesis, encouraging more vigorous plant growth. The reports also pointed out that effects could be mitigated by tactics like switching to crops more suitable for the new conditions...
Boston and Vicinity--Today, mostly cloudy and coo. Highs 45 to 50. Northeast winds around 10 mph. Tonight, cloudy with lows near 40. Winds northeast 10 to 20mph. Thursday cloudy with a chance of rain developing. Highs...
...comments came on the 10th anniversary of the oil embargo, and coincided with a similar appeal by U.S. Rep. James L. Oberstar (D-Minn.), co-chairman of the Northeast-Midwest Congressional Coalition...