Word: northern
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...Once again the desperate lot of the Negroes and the conditions in which they live in Northern ghettos has caught a city by surprise [July 21]. This is all the more horrifying when we realize that the federal, state and local governments seem at a loss to know what to do. Congressional leaders seem more concerned with punishment of the rioters than in identifying and treating the causes that have been festering for years. Our country has become so involved with foreign affairs that the domestic problems, more immediate and potentially destructive, are receiving secondhand attention...
...several months now, the noise of heavy machinery has tormented students living in the northern section of the Yard. Last spring many students in that area complained that they were unable to study or to sleep because of the constant banging and pounding...
...wealth, many of the most interesting stellar objects are inaccessible to the earth's most powerful optical telescopes. The objects are visible only from the Southern Hemisphere; the biggest telescopes, such as the massive 200-inch instrument atop California's Mount Palomar, are located in the Northern Hemisphere...
Studying the Milky Way. Foremost among the problem regions to be studied under optimum conditions for the first time is the center of the earth's own galaxy. That portion of the Milky Way is only partially visible in the Northern Hemisphere for a few hours each night, and then only during summer months. In the Southern Hemisphere, the center of the galaxy moves directly overhead six months of the year. Moreover, the closest galaxies to the Milky Way-the Large and Small Magellenic Clouds, more than 160,000 light-years away, can be seen only from the Southern...
...stock swap, Boise Cascade acquired Indianapolis' U.S. Land Inc., which thrives by building artificial lakes in northern Virginia or California's Mother Lode country, then selling the land around them for residential and resort use. With the purchase, Boise Cascade became the nation's most thoroughly integrated company in the housing field...