Word: northeaster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...announce a "great historic event, the birth of a new state." At his side stood Chief Patrick Mphephu, 54, a small, diffident man with a fifth-grade education, who was soon to become the Executive President of the Republic of Venda, a Delaware-sized region tucked in the northeast corner of South Africa. As Venda's new four-color flag fluttered in the breeze overhead, Mphephu told his fellow citizens, "We must be prepared to preserve and defend this newly won dream...
HARTFORD, CONN. -- President Carter yesterday announced plans for a $2.4 billion program to help low-income families pay rising energy costs and promised residents of the Northeast that "we will have necessary fuel to get us through this winter...
Some, like Ronald Chervin '83, worried that the problem might be worse in the Northeast. "I would worry if it was more here than somewhere else--then I would have gone to Princeton," he said. Dougherty, however, said his study did not compare regions of the country...
...Amazon are capitalism in its most epic sense. But he has wisely insisted on 'Brazilianizing' Jari: only 40 of the 8,500-member labor force are non-Brazilian. He has drawn university graduates from the country's south, illiterate laborers from Brazil's economically stricken northeast, and equally unfortunate natives from the Amazon's primitive villages. Ludwig's managers at Jari claim with pride that they have created a true meritocracy with instant opportunities for advancement for anyone who shows talent and the desire...
Western Australia's Nullarbor (meaning no trees) Plain is an arid, limestone plateau that lies east of the old gold-rush towns of Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie, southeast of Comet Vale and northeast of Grass Patch. It is a barren, almost unpopulated land of sand and saltbush. Out of the blackness of the southwestern sky one night last week, the fringe of this isolated region was visited by a fiery symbol of the Western world's most advanced technology: the final, fatal fall of Skylab...