Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week Texaco announced the discovery of a major field about 110 miles northeast of Aberdeen. Eleven other commercial fields stretch in a 600-mile band from the Shetland Islands west of Norway down as far as the south-central coast of England. Drilling is being done by British Petroleum, Exxon, Gulf, Texaco, Shell, Mobil and 35 other companies. They will start to produce small amounts later this year and expect to be bringing in 2 million bbl. a day by 1980. But a hot taxation feud between the companies and the Labor government threatens to stall development...
...similar badges of class in male M.P.s. Says one Conservative backbencher: "She's not only a woman. She's the wrong sort of woman. She might be acceptable in the suburbs and seaside resort areas. I cannot see her making much of an impact in the industrial northeast and Scotland. After all, she's a very suburban lady...
...Democratic-controlled Congress threatened to hold up and reject his proposals. A bipartisan group of Governors from the Northeast pledged to go to court to thwart his plans. A summit meeting of organized labor denounced his Administration in terms that they used to reserve for Herbert Hoover. Even on the right, former California Governor Ronald Reagan was sharply disapproving...
...cost-boosting impact of the energy program. In fact, the quibbles over the size and distribution of tax cuts are popgun shots in comparison with the cannonade of criticism that Ford's energy proposals have provoked. The tax on oil will be particularly inflationary in the chilly Northeast, which burns a considerable amount of oil, much of it imported. Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis calls the tax "disastrous." Adds James Howell, the chief economist of the First National Bank of Boston: "We in New England are being screwed by the President's program...
...heaviest main-force fighting took place in the provinces of Thua Thien and Binh Dinh, several hundred miles northeast of Saigon, where government troops tried to block Communist efforts to push into rice-rich coastal regions. Viet Cong shells fell intermittently on several towns like Bien Hoa near Saigon while south of the capital, in the economically crucial Mekong Delta, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces in small-unit action disrupted river and road communications and raided small government outposts in an effort to push Saigon's men back into provincial capitals and district towns. Saigon's response...