Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Long frustrated by the legal appeals of environmentalists, fishermen, beach-front homeowners and hoteliers, the nation's energy companies at last will begin drilling for oil and gas off the Northeast Coast by early summer. The oilmen won a hard-fought victory last week when the U.S. Supreme Court, by refusing to hear an appeal of a lower-court decision, signaled a go-ahead to exploit acreage near the Baltimore Canyon, which lies 50 to 90 miles off Atlantic City, N.J. The most optimistic geologists estimate that this tract contains up to 1.4 billion bbl. of oil and 9 trillion...
Greis says she also likes Cambridge and the Northeast in general. "I considered Duke, because they have a women's golf team and also a good academic program," Greis says. But she explains, in a fashion that would delight Harvard idealists, that her decision to come to Cambridge involved a bit of foresight...
...since 1888 has the Northeast suffered such a winter storm...
This was the scene along the Massachusetts coast last week, as a mammoth blizzard-the worst since 1888-slammed the Northeast, dropping from 1 to 4 ft. of snow in the latest blast from a whiter of stormy discontent. Raging from Virginia to Maine, the hurricane-like storm killed at least 56 people, caused an estimated half billion dollars' worth of damage and crippled Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island for five days...
...down by four games in the previous three days, the women's varsity basketball team yesterday dropped a 61-46 decision to a University of New Hampshire squad ranked seventh in the Northeast...