Word: northeasters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that his opponent is totally incompetent or dangerous. Rep. Michael J. Harrington '58 (D-Mass.) admits that King has the "instincts of a soup-kitchen general for the Salvation Army," but on the other hand he thinks Massachusetts could use such a man to spur economic development in the northeast. Harrington's point is that King is a hustler, and that the state needs someone like him, even if he is going to run everyone over to get what he wants...
...Rhodesian fighter-bombers circled over Chikumbi for nearly 45 minutes. According to Nkomo, 226 men were killed and 629 were wounded in the attack on the base, which housed nearly 3,000 unarmed civilians as well as ZAPU fighters. Two hours later, Rhodesian forces struck another camp at Mkushi, northeast of Lusaka, killing at least 50 guerrillas...
...seemed so simple. Two and a half years ago, as Congress sought ways to rescue the Northeast's dying railroads, the advocates of the Consolidated Rail Corp., or Conrail for short, had all the answers. Basing their predictions on optimistic extrapolations, they promised that a unification of the region's six roads,* plus a one-time federal grant of $2 billion, would produce an efficient system that would be riding in the black...
...nation's largest rail system, Conrail has annual revenues of $3.3 billion, 90,000 employees and 34,000 miles of track crisscrossing the Northeast, stretching west to Missouri and north to Canada. Though most of its business is freight, it also carries 360,000 commuters each weekday to New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Chicago. For all these superlatives, Conrail continues to hemorrhage money because its equipment was in worse shape and its labor force was more featherbedded than almost anyone in Washington had suspected...
...looks to be one of the most important meets in the Northeast and in the world right now. It puts together two of the great swimming powers, East Germany's girls and the U.S. girls," he said...