Word: northeast
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Because Harris has been convicted of murder, she must serve her time at a maximum-security prison, not one of the fenced-in "country clubs" favored by Watergate felons and other white-collar convicts. Her home will be the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, 47 miles northeast of New York City. Despite its red brick colonial buildings and its playing fields, Bedford Hills is a long way from Madeira. Outside there is a 12-ft.-high chain-link fence topped with barbed wire; inside there are 360 two-story cellblocks...
...Chad's comparatively prosperous south with its sizable Christian minority, is being encouraged by France to secede from the arid, impoverished northern region. At the same time, Habré's well-disciplined force of 1,500 men is regrouping near the town of Abeche, 400 miles northeast of the capital, where they are receiving assistance from both the Sudan and Egypt for a protracted guerrilla war. After 16 years of combat. Chad's 4.5 million people are bracing for yet another round of strife...
...native Southerner, Pettigrew admits he always disliked the climate and atmosphere in the Northeast. "There's really nothing I miss about life at Harvard," he says, adding, "I'm a little surprised I haven't been more nostalgic." --Sarah L. Bingham
Between 1959 and 1969, Derold Happel and his wife Brenda rented up to 300 acres of fertile farmland in Iowa's Benton County, northeast of Des Moines. They longed for land of their own, but they had no assets they could mortgage to get a big enough loan from local banks. A friend told Happel about the Farmers Home Administration. He borrowed $60,000 for 40 years at 5% from FHA and bought 120 acres of prime land with the cash. Today he owns 275 acres, rents 500 and farms 425 more for an absentee owner. Without FHA, Happel...
...looking into banks and investment management firms. Similar to when I selected a college, I want to stay in the Northeast region, Boston or New York would be great," Hackett says. "Ideally I'd like to attend business school within the next few years, but right now I'm after the practical experience...