Word: northeaster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...radius of about 60 miles, at least 40 had been leveled and an additional 10,000 lives lost. It was the world's worst earthquake of 1978. The toll of death and destruction was Iran's most calamitous since 1968, when an earthquake centered at Kakhk, 110 miles northeast of Tabas on the same geological belt, killed 12,000 people...
...haven't really worked out the details of how the research will be allocated and conducted," Steven King, USDA regional administrator of the northeast region, said yesterday. A planning committee, which is expected to include Robert Geyer, chairman of the Department of Nutrition, will meet in October to work out administrative details, he added...
...Crimson Harriers have their work cut out for them. Traditionally the class of the Northeast and often a national title contender, Providence is the stiffer of the two opponents. UMass is also a tough squad, though more along the lines of Northeastern, the Herd's first victim of the season...
...Spanish explorer, was chronicled in 1769. Seeking evidence of earlier quakes, Sieh in 1974 began a painstaking tour of hundreds of miles of the San Andreas Fault in central and southern California. The following year, under an ancient marsh that straddles the fault 88 km (55 miles) northeast of downtown Los Angeles, he struck pay dirt...
...Mediterranean principality, what with its Byzantine politics, and all. If that's true, then Florida is perhaps the northernmost Caribbean principality--ruled by Holiday Inn instead of United Fruit. Subject to coups and missile shots and crazed Cubanos and Ed Gurney and Ed Gurney's ghost, where the great Northeast goes to die of the pulmonary diseases contracted in 40 years of living in the great Northeast, hospitable only to snakes and gators, the Miami Dolphins and Richard Petty, ah Florida--my Florida, home of Danny...