Word: northeast
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...further information on the means to salvage the economy, the political balance, and the nation in general, Tsongas recommends his own book, expected out this fall. Unlike the Massachusetts Plan, which is dominated by outlandish strategies for better energy use in the Northeast, the Tsongas tome will be a more comprehensive work "to get people to think through, what is a political philosophy...
WITH FAST, INTUITIVE brush strokes Carlos Diegues" Bye Bye Brazil captures the spirit of an entire subcontinent in the flux of modernization. Rambling from the dusty old town of Pirhanhas in the Northeast where the facades of buildings look like pastel stagesets, to the parched hopelessness of the plains, down into the teeming Amazon jungles and out to the polluted, industrial port cities and the awkward metropolis of Brasilia, the film follows its motley heroes feeling their way from the old to new. Diegues revels in the journey, sketching his way across the country recording the colors and complexities...
...proposal to help the urban poor to migrate to the Sunbelt [Jan. 12] could be the Snowbelt's blessing in disguise. If Chairman William McGill's commission can create an efficient and economical enticement for all the poor of the Northeast to migrate to the Sunbelt, where the work is, perhaps the urban communities of the North can survive after...
This much is history: the new President, flying in from his warmer clime, was inaugurated in freezing Washington amid water rationing in the unseasonably warm West, crippling natural gas shortages in the Northeast, and record-breaking cold as far South as Miami. The year was 1977, and a Washington meteorologist said: "Jimmy Carter's first confrontation as President will not be with the Russians, but with the weather." Just to assure that Ronald Reagan is similarly humbled by elements beyond his control, nature has conjured up another trial by ice and drought for a new Administration...
...York, like much of the U.S., is also suffering from a drought. In the Northeast, reservoirs are at 15-year lows, some less than one-third full. With only a 100-day supply of water, New York City officials are weighing mandatory restrictions. The Governors of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware met in Trenton last week to declare a drought emergency, banning nonessential water...