Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bugs' aversion to frost has kept them out of the Midwest and Northeast, but even that may change. Tim Lockley, an entomologist at the Agriculture Department's fire-ant lab in Gulfport, Mississippi, says the ants have now settled in the mountains of east Tennessee, where as much as 7% of the population survived the especially frigid winter of 1993-94. Says Lockley: "It's just amazing how adaptive they...
...fluent in French, in which her name means "green leaf." She seldom talked about herself, but it was known she had grown up in the Northeast. She had been posted to Ethiopia in the late 1950s and served in the CIA station in Finland in the early 1960s and in the Hague in the mid-1960s. In the early 1970s she had found her metier, counterintelligence--combatting opposition spies and moles--when she was appointed head of the research section in the Soviet division's counterintelligence group, then chief of the branch that maintained biographies on Soviet and East European...
...spring season was a busy one for the Harvard-Radcliffe Ultimate Frisbee squad, which competed in several collegiate tournaments in the northeast region...
Most recently, in the Northeast Regional tournament held at Umass-Amherst, the Disciples finished an encouraging 8th out of the 16 teams that competed...
...have not exactly been known for their restraint. While the cease-fire was still in effect, the Bosnian Serbs repeatedly shelled the so-called safe area of Bihac, and the Bosnian government launched successful offensives on Mount Vlasic to the northwest of Sarajevo and the Majevica Hills to the northeast...