Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Middle distance man Bill Okerman, progressing at each outing, will wrap up the indoor season against the Northeast's top 1000-yard runners. Okerman's top competition is likely to be Boston College's Keith Francis...
...Western U.S., where gasoline is still relatively plentiful, winter resorts are generally still busy. But in the Northeast, about two-thirds of the ski areas are reporting smaller crowds. Many operators have been able to attract the ski ers they do get only by buying gas stations or promising to fill the visitors' tanks once they arrive. In Vermont, where skiing is the largest industry, statewide unemployment has risen to 7%. Only 25 people were on the payroll two weeks ago at Glen Ellen-down from 125 a year earlier...
...Workers Revolutionary Party (a minuscule Trotskyite group) candidate for Newham Northeast, a London working-class constituency, Comrade Vanessa faces a stiff four-way fight in the upcoming British general election against the incumbent Labor candidate and Tory and Marxist contenders. Although her victory chances are small, Vanessa is emphasizing what she calls "the real issue" of the campaign-"the oppression of workers by the ruling classes." As yet, however, she has not officially agreed with her party leader Gerry Healy's claim that British airfields are now being converted into concentration camps...
Quinn's complaint also names Western Massachusetts Electric, which is controlled by Northeast Utilities. Harvard owns $79,522 worth of Northeast Utilities stock...
...devotees of deep-freeze fishing now at its seasonal peak, there is no other pastime quite like it. In the numbing months when outdoorsmen have little else to do, it is not only a rewarding sport-state and federal authorities estimate that ice anglers in the Northeast and Midwest catch at least as many fish each year as traditional fishermem-but a welcome weekend escape into a predominantly male world of tall tales poker and six-pack camaraderie. Each February, when the ice grows thick enough on lakes in the Northern states whole towns of ice-fishing shacks spring...