Word: northeasterly
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...grave, it may be worth calculating the cost of such support. For now, however, there is a symbolic triumph in preventing children from being written off the moment their umbilical cords are cut. And something more than symbolism is occurring in Holland's apartment in Washington's dangerous Northeast neighborhood. A crib stands by the front door; its tenant is holding out her little arms and smiling widely, eyes as big as chestnuts. Holland scoops her up. "I love being a mother now," she says. In her mother's arms, Courtney Rosia-Lee Holland laughs delightedly...
Aziz's mother Halima, 50, told how the family fled their home in the village of Simsim, just northeast of the Gaza Strip in Israel, when she was a little girl during the 1948 war. "Since 1948 we have never been happy," she said. "We have no land, no security, no hope, no future." When the Aziz family set up a small T shirt-printing shop in 1989, the Israeli occupation authorities imposed taxes she says they could not afford to pay. In 1991 Anwar was arrested as a suspected Islamic Jihad supporter, and spent two years in prison...
There are more substantive reasons for questioning whether the surge will continue, even in subdued form. For one thing, it is regional rather than national, concentrated in the South, the Midwest and the Rocky Mountain states, especially Colorado; California is still in recession, and the Northeast no better than bumping along bottom. Of more general importance, people at the moment are spending more money than they are earning; personal income rose a strong 0.6% in October, but consumer spending jumped an even stronger 0.8%. Many analysts doubt that consumers can keep it up; savings are low, and debts remain high...
...Basically, my philosophy is simple," he said. "I believe that you have to be balanced, you have to be able to both throw and run well or you're in trouble. You definitely have to be able to run up here in the Northeast...
Geographically, there were increases inapplicants from the Northeast, the mid-Atlantic,the Midwest and foreign countries, he said