Word: northern
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Here at the edge of northern Vermont, the international boundary lies right across a quiet but thickly settled small town. On the American side, the town is called Derby Line, Vt.; on the Canadian, Rock Island, Que. Local historians believe that the border runs the way it does because an 18th century British surveyor named John Collins was drunk...
...most exciting strike was made in 1975 when a drilling crew hit oil and gas deep in northern Utah's Pineview Field in what is known as the "Overthrust Belt." A giant geologic knot that twists from southern Colorado to the Canadian border, the belt was not considered worth serious exploration at previous prices because of the tough and expensive drilling conditions. Pools of oil and gas are randomly located and perched on top of one another, and such formations make traditional exploration and analysis difficult, if not impossible. Says A.B. ("Pete") Slaybaugh, chief of Continental...
...conflict is also between tradition and progress, farm and factory. Abhorring the very idea of living in industrial townships, the Bedouins argue instead for the creation of their own moshavim, the model agricultural cooperatives that have been especially successful in the northern Sinai. But Israeli government officials have long insisted that the tribesmen are needed as a labor force for new industries that are planned for the Negev. Moreover, the well-equipped, high production moshavim require large tracts and expensive irrigation. And, as one senior official bluntly told TIME's Lesley Hazleton, "I'm not giving good Jewish...
...have 279 supporters in the Lok Sabha (lower house), nine more than necessary to form a majority government. Even as Reddy scrutinized the conflicting claims, members of Parliament were changing allegiances behind the scene. In the end, the President chose Singh, the leader of 10 million Jats (farmers) from northern India, as his country's fifth Prime Minister...
Some railroad towns also would surge. For example, the population of Alliance, Neb., has jumped from 7,000 to 12,000 since 1976 because of increased traffic on the Burlington Northern. All across the country, railroads would need to upgrade their aging roadbeds, at a cost of as much as $10 billion, to handle the huge new volumes of coal and other freight. The entire construction effort, says Economist Alan Greenspan, would be rather like building a new Saudi Arabia in the middle...