Word: northeastern
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...stretching back to the first wave of migrants - about 80,000 of them - who followed the Dalai Lama to India in 1959. Many of them were unschooled, unskilled nomads who found only low-wage jobs in road construction. A few thousand were allotted uninhabited jungle land in southern and northeastern India and given training to become farmers. Later, some received subsidies to help market traditional handicrafts. But the vast majority of migrants settled in Dharamsala along with the Dalai Lama. The local economy was unable to absorb them. A mere lucky few found odd jobs or set up business...
...according to government statistics. On Thursday a car bombing at a livestock market in Hilla, south of Baghdad, left 12 people dead. Meanwhile, American and Iraqi security forces continue to try to rout out the remnants of Al-Qaeda in the restive northern city of Mosul and in the northeastern Diyala province...
...most recent set of games.This has been quite a turnaround from earlier in the season. In his first three years, Housman averaged nearly 32 minutes per game, but for most of the beginning of this season, he saw his playing time cut. In a double overtime loss to Northeastern at home in December, he did play a season-high 37 minutes and hit two threes in the final minute of regulation to tie the score. But in the upset Boston College in January, he played just 14 minutes and in the first three Ivy League games, he played only...
This past season for the Harvard skiing team has illustrated just how hard it is for alpine and Nordic squads from the bustling metropolis that is Cambridge to compete against some of the top northeastern skiing schools, which often benefit from great training facilities in their obscure locations. However, with five tenth-place finishes coming into the last weekend of the season, the Crimson was determined to prove that it +has been making gains on some of the top skiing teams in the country with which it competes and should not be viewed as the doormat of the northeastern skiing...
...awkward but affable undergrads. They were either from Harvard, BU, or Northeastern. Some wore yarmulkes, some not. Most were from New York or Boston and were studying economics, science, or math. A few tried to start with jokes, but unfortunately, none of these were memorable enough to be repeated here. They smiled a lot and asked me why I had left California to go to school at Harvard. None of them asked...