Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Percheron rockets, named after a French draft horse, is being built in a Sunnyvale, Calif., plant by 17 engineers, some of them former employees of NASA. This week the device will be loaded aboard a flatbed truck and hauled to a launch pad at Matagorda Island, about 50 miles northeast of Corpus Christi, Texas, a site that NASA once considered for launches. After testing the prototype, the company hopes to conduct its first orbital flight next year...
...flight plan, exact details of which remain secret, skirted the southern tip of Jordan, then proceeded northeast across the top of Saudi Arabia. From time to time the jets would flash over a reference point, and the group leader would radio a code message ("sand dune yellow") to the war room in Tel Aviv's Defense Ministry building. The warplanes remained well beyond the range of U.S.-operated AWACS radar aircraft currently assigned to the Saudis and patroling the country's Persian Gulf perimeter. The job of the one AWACS that was airborne at the time was solely to survey...
...agreed to a new investment tax credit for the rehabilitation of existing buildings, a move that could benefit the older -and mostly Democratic-cities of the Northeast and Midwest. He also pledged to reduce the windfall profits tax on people who receive royalties from oil wells...
...major reason for Caliguiri's lock on his job is that he has presided over one of the few success stories among cities of the recession-plagued Northeast. Despite high unemployment in the steel industry, corporations have invested $1.5 billion in new office buildings, speeding Pittsburgh's transition from mill town to corporate center. Caliguiri is spending millions more to repair bridges, build water and sewer systems and upgrade housing in the city's older neighborhoods. Predicts the mayor: "Pittsburgh is going to be the first major city in the Northeast to see actual gains in population...
...Person journeyed to Washington to seek help. Federal officials suggested that the Blackfeet make pencils and offered financial aid amounting to about $300,000. An investment broker put Old Person in touch with private investors in the Northeast willing to provide more seed money. With a grand total of $500,000, including $101,000 of their own capital, the Blackfeet launched the company...