Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From Duncan's little corner of paradise, the Everglades doesn't seem endangered. But just 40 miles to the northeast, the picture changes abruptly. Here there are no game fish, no white ibis and hardly any alligators. Where once a complex ecosystem flourished, there are only cattails, acre upon acre of them, stretching as far as the eye can see. Cattails are taking over the eastern Everglades, crowding out the saw grass and choking the algae at the base of the ecosystem's food chain. Cattails now cover 20,000 acres of what was once pristine wetland. Grown thick...
...fight has moved into the courts. In what could become a landmark case, Planned Parenthood of Northeast Florida and 21 citizens in Duval County, Florida, have sued the local school board for rejecting a broad-based sex- education curriculum developed by the board's staff in favor of a controversial abstinence-only program from Teen-Aid, Inc. of Spokane, Washington. Planned Parenthood complains that the material in the text is biased, sensationalist and, at times, misleading. Some school-board members argue that the real issue is whether the local community has the right to choose the sex-education curriculum...
...figures left economists underwhelmed. After a weak first quarter, some worried, the nation might slip back into a recession. Most economists, however, blamed the slowdown on the snow and rainstorms that battered the South, West and Northeast during February and March. Still, the Administration can expect more bad news, says an influential group of chief executives. In its first report card on the Clinton Administration, the Business Council predicted sluggish growth ahead due to the continuing downturn in Europe and other markets...
...previously undefeated Bulldogs had defeated tennis powers Princeton and West Virginia and were expected to be Harvard's primary competition in the Northeast...
Harvard had to play Navy, West Virginia and Princeton in a four-day stretch, all on the road, all league games. In addition, West Virginia and Princeton are ranked among the top programs in the Northeast...