Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program coordinators expect to receive more than 1000 applications for the experimental program from doctoral candidates and recent Ph.D.s from universities throughout the Northeast...
...reliance on the advice of a close-knit Georgia Mafia. Says Thomas Sampson, managing partner in the Boston office of Arthur Andersen & Co., the accounting firm, and a New England fund raiser for Carter: "I don't think all the brains in the world are in the Northeast. But I don't think they are all in Georgia either...
...have emerged as the team to beat in the Boston area. Armed with the Greater Boston Tournament title, the Mass State title, and a third place finish in the New England Regional Championships, the women in white are fighting to carve a niche among the traditional powerhouses of the Northeast...
After last winter's giant wallop, what is in store this year? Official U.S. long-range-weather forecasters are hedging their bets, but others are not. The 1978 edition of the Old Farmer's Almanac, out last week, predicts that the Northeast is in for a particularly "cold and gloomy" winter. Snowfall will be 15 to 20 in. above average. The chill will descend as far south as Florida. A moderate winter is predicted for the rest of the country-but folkloric weathermen in the Midwest cite a number of telltale signs that point in the opposite direction...
...ludicrously out of place, a white shrimp boat with canvas canopy chugging through the Gulf of Maine, 120 miles northeast of Boston. It flew no flag, bore no name and carried no fishing gear. The reason the craft had sailed so far north became immediately apparent once suspicious Coast Guard officers went aboard and sniffed the air: below deck were 859 burlap bales containing 25 tons of pot (estimated market value: $15 million...