Word: northeaster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...growing crime too. Cigarette bootlegging is now a big business in 23 high-tax states, mostly in the Northeast and Midwest. The U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations puts the total loss of revenue at $400 million a year. A quarter of that loss occurs in New York: other hard-hit states include Texas ($45 million), Florida ($36 million) and Illinois ($25 million). Worse still, cigarette smuggling has become an important revenue producer for organized crime, ranking fourth behind gambling, prostitution and narcotics. Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy, who conducted Senate buttlegging hearings last month, says that...
...opening round of the Northeast Intercollegiate Field Hockey Championships last Thursday, the Crimson women could not muster a goal against the Eli' team they had beaten 2-0 just eight days earlier, and the 2-0 loss knocked Harvard out of the tournament and out of contention for a spot in the national tournament in Denver...
...take the tourney title. UConn co-captain Liz Childs scored the lone goal at 19:30 into the first half. Her unassisted score came off a rebound from the pads of UMass goalie Kathy Gipps. The two finalists will both travel to Colorado in two weeks to represent the Northeast in the NCAA Championships...
While Mr. Drinkwater will receive the best ticket of any alumnus on the basis of his seniority, each year the Alumni Records Office sends out applications for Yale tickets to all alumni living in the Northeast. Applications also stream in from Harvard alumni scattered around the globe who plan on making the pilgrimage to New Haven. Kozlowski says, "You should see some of the great stamps...
...least hospitable places on earth. A steady wind moans over the crocodiles basking on the banks of blue-green Lake Turkana and flattens the knee-high beach grass where the long-horned oryx graze. Beyond stretches the desert of northeast Kenya, baked by the African sun. In a wadi, or dried-up stream bed, not far away, a sandy-haired man moves slowly, his loose shorts and shirt flapping in the breeze, his head bare to the sun, his eyes searching the arid soil at his feet. Some 50 ft. away, sandals scuffing dust into the air behind...