Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tournament will decide the Northeast's representative to the national tournament at Penn State...
...Crimson, with the only undefeated record in the Northeast, will probably face the University of New Hampshire--which Den Hartog described as a "tough tournament team" --in the first round...
...prevention grounds. Snapped Ham at one of his antagonists in the legislature: "I'm not surprised to see a funeral director speaking for this bill." The move was defeated. Police in many states enthusiastically support the lower limit. Says Maryland State Police Captain Milton Taylor: "Here in the Northeast Corridor we've got so much congestion that it's almost impossible to drive sanely at more than 55." Taylor concedes that there are regional differences. "Out in the prairie states or the Southwest they've got the stretching room for a higher speed limit...
This situation is felt most acutely in the declining cities of the Northeast and Midwest, and the old Southern river towns like New Orleans. But tight budgets are also threatening the infrastructure in the West. The effect of California's Proposition 13, which slashed property taxes by an average of 57%, has already shown up in the deteriorating condition of that state's streets and highways...
...screen lovers raise their glasses in a toast, so does just about everyone in the audience. Wooroo! Such synchronized celebrations take place nightly at a growing number of movie bars in the South and Northeast, where patrons may chase a good flick-or drown a bad one-with beer, wine or cocktails. Seated in executive-style leather swivel chairs ranged around butcher-block cocktail tables, customers have only to beckon a waitress for refills or to order sandwiches. They manage thus to combine the comforts of home with the fillip of a night out. Indeed, sipping cinemas...