Word: northeaster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...states came out $20.1 billion net losers in their dealings with the Treasury. Meanwhile, Southern states received $12.6 billion more from Washington than they paid, and the West cleared more than $10 billion. Other figures show a similar disparity: defense payrolls and contracts averaged $282 per person in the Northeast, compared with $368 in the South and $565 in the West. In a gentle debate with Busbee at the White House conference, New York's Senator Daniel P. Moynihan quipped: "Our armed forces are clearly preparing to fight the next war in Nicaragua, or at least some place where...
...loan guarantees, Busbee agreed that "fire and brimstone regionalism" must not be allowed to overwhelm national economic policy. But sectionalist pressures are growing fast. At least six associations of elected officials and regional experts have been created by Northern states during the past 18 months alone. The largest: the Northeast-Midwest coalition of 204 Congressmen, headed by Massachusetts Representative Michael Harrington, which seeks legislation favorable to industrial states. In newspaper ads proclaiming THE NORTH SHALL RISE AGAIN, Michigan has called for a Great Lakes area "common market." Busbee in turn has been telling colleagues, "We in the South will...
...force, which is three times as large as it was in 1967. Some U.S. observers have suggested that Israel should be giving more thought to building additional fields within its own borders, but either way, the costs are enormous. To rebuild Etzion 25 to 40 miles to the northeast would cost at least $1 billion?a tab the Israelis would expect the U.S. to pick up as part of the peace package...
That record was his first brush with the big time, but Joel hardly had the chance to settle back. His albums after Piano Man sold well, but not excitingly. His audience was not expanding appreciably beyond a loyal band of fanatic followers located mostly in the Northeast, possibly because his music was too varied ?and sometimes a little too slick?to classify...
...liberal Democrats, who else is there? It is difficult to take Pat Moynihan, who periodically sounds like a candidate, seriously as a Carter challenger. Moynihan's flamboyant style is simply too many provincial and potentially too offending to too many voters for him to fare well outside the industrial Northeast. Moreover, his belligerence against the Soviets and Third World countries during his stint as United States U.N. ambassador under Gerald Ford and his recommendation of "benign neglect" toward blacks while serving as a White House adviser to Richard Nixon, make him the antithesis of what many liberals would seek...