Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same vortex has created quite different weather quirks in the U.S. and other temperate zones. As the winds swirl around the globe, their southerly portions undulate like the bottom of a skirt. Cold air is pulled down across the Western U.S. and warm air is swept up to the Northeast. The collision of air masses of widely differing temperatures and humidity can create violent storms-the Midwest's recent rash of disastrous tornadoes, for example...
Although Pei has not drawn up a design for the building, he and Harvard officials have agreed upon an outline which calls for the construction of a six-story brick building in the northeast corner of the site. The structure will have a narrow rectangular shape, measuring 380 by 50 feet and will contain 160,000 sq. feet of floor space...
...profit is that, having regained a satisfactory number of customers, the company is again raising its prices. For example, James Palmer, supermarket-stock analyst of Wall Street's Bregman Securities Co., reports that last fall A. & P. began hiking its prices substantially in the Midwest and Northeast. A recent comparison-shopping survey by the Croton Consumer Action Organization in New York's Westchester County found that a pound of Oscar Mayer bacon cost $1.39 at A. & P. v. $1.19 at Grand Union; a 9-oz. package of Birds Eye frozen green beans, 33? v. 31?; Kraft mayonnaise...
...March 4, 1973, Maurice and Maralyn Bailey had their breakfast interrupted by sperm whale, which rammed their twin-keel sloop Auralyn about 250 miles northeast of the Galapagos Islands. The boat suffered a fatal portside hole below the waterline. Within an hour, the couple-who had been on their way from native England to New Zealand-embarked on a spectacular survival adventure in a round, covered rubber raft roped to a nine-foot dinghy. The publisher claims that the Baileys set a record-117 days*-for time adrift following a shipwreck. Though each lost about 40 pounds, suffered vitamin deficiencies...
...changes were made in response to community concern about the large size of the library, which will be located in the northeast corner of the MBTA yards across from Eliot House...