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Word: northeasters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remarkable series of notches on Walker's gun began four years ago with his work on the passage of a bill reorganizing seven railroads in the Northeast and Midwest. Since then, he has helped persuade Congress to increase the investment tax credit from 7% to 10% and to turn down a proposed boycott of trade with the Arabs. His philosophy, as stated to a friend: "My priorities are easy-I take what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: An S.O.B. with Elbows | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

...recently laid-off teacher of English composition from Brockton, N.Y., Kim is also a member of an outfit called the Society for Creative Anachronism, with a "couple of hundred" confreres scattered across the Northeast. Medieval buffs, they engage in "wars, feasts and revels" at appropriate times of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Ann Arbor: The Guns of July | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

...another; last New Year's Day she cleared $165. Jon Watson supplements his income as an assistant professor at the University of Houston by hawking plants from his van and earns $300 to $600 a weekend. Some dealers have become increasingly professional, jumping from markets in the Northeast in spring and summer to those in the South in winter. At the San Jose market, the more enterprising sell as much as $70,000 annually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economy & Business: Bug-Eyed over Flea Markets | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

...sets of twins were on hand. One of its two black members was present. The other had been glimpsed around town years ago, but where he was now was a mystery here in Kittanning, Pa., a hilly little county seat on the Allegheny River some 45 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, homelike if not home to the members of the Kittanning High School class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Pennsylvania: A Time on the River | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

Ambulances and private cars ferried maimed and disfigured victims for emergency treatment to Tarragona, Valencia and 120 miles northeast to Barcelona. West German and Swiss rescue planes were pressed into service to transport others to specialized burn centers in their home countries. But doctors predicted that most of the injured, burned over 90% of their bodies, could not survive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: It Was Like Napalm | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

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