Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First Agnes crashed through Florida and Cuba and seemed about to peter out as it moved inland. But then it turned out to sea off Virginia, recharged its depleted energies and slammed back onto the northeast mainland, already saturated by a week of nearly incessant rains. By the weekend, at least 96 people were dead and more than 120,000 had been evacuated. Five states-Florida, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia-had been declared disaster areas, and damage estimates ran into the billions. Robert M. White, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, pronounced the flooding produced...
...Only two days before, a southbound train had entered one end of the mile-long Vierzy tunnel 60 miles northeast of Paris, at the same time as a northbound train roared in from the other end. Unknown to either engineer, part of the tunnel's roof had fallen in. The two trains hit the rockfall, which acted like a trampoline, hurtling them up to the roof at 60 m.p.h.; cars at the rear telescoped into a mass of tangled metal. Rescue workers braved the possibility that more of the darkened tunnel's roof might collapse and worked with...
...breakdown did not come all at once-not like the cataclysmic nightfall that blacked out New York and most of the Northeast in 1965-but it was no less eerie. House lights went out; furnaces sputtered and cooled; auto traffic jammed up at darkened intersections. Dog races were canceled because the electric rabbits would no longer run. Factories shifted to a four-day week, then a three-day week, laying off 1.6 million employees. Only the most essential services operated full time-hospitals, water and sewage plants-and nobody knew how long they could continue...
...example, recently complained that it had to get 67 different licenses and permits before it could start the Keowee-Toxaway project in South Carolina. Even when the bureaucracy seems willing to provide licenses, environmentalist groups have started suing to stop plant construction, particularly in densely settled areas of the Northeast, the upper Middle West and Southern California. The Sierra Club's Richard Lahn calls it "guerrilla theater...
...worthy causes as ending its military involvement. But even if she were clearly and strongly committed to such a cause, it is questionable how much power she would have as one member of a board that includes a Business School professor; the presidents of Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates, Northeast Utilities, North American Management Corp., and Old Colony Trust Co.; the chairman of the board of Commonwealth Oil Refining Co., and John Hancock Life Insurance Co.; and the senior vice-president of the First National Bank of Boston. She might have an effect, however, for General Gavin, as a McGovern...