Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...work? That's stress," says John Johnston, a 20- year veteran of the Los Angeles police department. The criminals, he takes in stride: "Dealing with bad guys is why I became a cop. What gets you down is the bureaucracy." In his office in the L.A.P.D.'s Northeast division, which includes the grimiest stretch of Hollywood Boulevard, the computers are antique, the shotguns routinely fail during practice and the cars in the lot are monuments to budgetary restraints: the odometers read 132,000 miles...
...increased competition from these organizations threaten Harvard's ability to support its prestigious medical community, one of the premier networks of health care providers in the Northeast...
Hiking the heights of the Northeast proved to be better spent in communication than in solitude. Our debates raged on everything from godless religion to national health care. Gorp (Good 'Ol Raisins & Peanuts, for those unfamiliar) breaks tended to be welcome punctuations. All our food, and even the iodized (and sometimes not) water, was drooled over...
...many parts of the U.S., especially the Northeast, people are already leery of strolling in wooded areas for fear of encountering ticks carrying Lyme disease, a potentially chronic, arthritis-like condition. Now the Journal of the American Medical Association has reported on another tick-borne disease, which struck 25 people in Wisconsin and Minnesota, killing two. It is caused by a new variety of the Ehrlichia bacterium, which was first detected in humans in 1954. Doctors are concerned because life-threatening Ehrlichia infections may be misdiagnosed as Lyme disease or even a bad cold...
...broke out in the former Yugoslavia. Even the Serb President, Slobodan Milosevic, has warned the recalcitrant Bosnian Serbs by threatening to cut off their supplies and funding. Are the Serbs getting the point? Apparently not. They're continuing their siege of Sarajevo and their effort to drive Muslims from northeast Bosnia. "The Bosnian Serbs think they will somehow wiggle out of this just like they've wiggled out of every other ultimatum," says TIME's Central Europe Bureau Chief James Graff...