Word: northeast
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...last minute, they withdrew a proposal to set a strict limit on Washington contributions to the federal-state Medicaid program that pays many hospital and doctor bills for low-income patients. That was one of the rare Administration proposals that provoked Republican rebellion: some G.O.P. Congressmen from the Northeast and Midwest notified the White House that they could not go along because they feared their financially hard-pressed states would have to pick up an unbearable share of the costs. Even so, the House voted to cut federal contributions to Medicaid by roughly 7%, or about $1.1 billion, over...
...wrangling to draw new boundaries for U.S. congressional districts to conform with the 1980 census. (After that, they will reapportion their own state legislatures.) The decennial battle, always a partisan struggle, is especially heated this year: a total of 17 seats must be transferred from ten states in the Northeast and Midwest to eleven states in the West and the South. Those losing seats are New York (five), Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania (two each), and Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey and South Dakota (one each). Gaining seats are Florida (four), Texas (three), California (two), and Arizona, Colorado, Nevada...
Episodes from a late-night horror flick? Not at all. More like cinema verite. Once again, the Northeast has been infested by gypsy-moth caterpillars in record numbers. Last year the bugs chomped so voraciously through more than 5 million acres of woodland that the usually lush summer landscape looked as leafless as in late fall. This year's damage, patchily extending from northern Maine to Maryland and beyond, is far worse: an estimated 11 million acres of forest, an area larger than all of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island...
...miles south of Mount Rainier. The victims were on an outing sponsored by the Portland-based Mazamas Club, a mountaineering group founded in 1894 and specializing in assaults on Mount Hood's 11,235-ft. peak. At the 10,500-ft. level on the dormant volcano's northeast face, one or more of the 17-member party slipped. The climbers, roped together in groups for safety, tumbled 2,000 ft. down the slope...
...then decided that he had to have it. Who knows what was going through his mind? Maybe he wanted to be part of some cool new scene. Elvis started playing roadsides all over the south, and the audiences there were poor. Maybe he thought he could reach the urban northeast in this car. Maybe not. He was probably just bored with his other twenty-three cars. When Gadlock talks about Elvis simply calling the studio right after the movie and buying the car outright for $55,000, he gets a strange look in his eyes. It's not the money...