Word: northern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...works bill that Jimmy Carter vetoed was a hodgepodge of hundreds of energy-producing and water-control projects. Many were clearly commendable (and supported by the President), such as the creation of a second deep-draft channel to relieve Honolulu's congested harbor and an irrigation project in northern Washington to nourish some 10,000 acres of apple orchards. But the bill also contained some projects benefiting so few people that Carter criticized them as wasteful. Some examples...
...designated much of his $1.3 million campaign budget for a TV blitz pressing the issues of inflation and high taxes. He supports the Kemp-Roth proposal for a 30% cut in federal income tax rates. Boschwitz has won support from environmentalists by backing strong restrictions on motorboats in northern Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area. He has gained favor among right-to-lifers by offering to introduce a constitutional amendment prohibiting abortion except in the case of rape or incest or when necessary to save the mother's life. These are issues on which Anderson has alienated voters...
...Celeste, David Garth-and both are spending more than half of their $1.5 million budgets on TV. While Rhodes has only two paid campaign aides, Celeste has built a professional organization throughout usually Republican southern Ohio and is counting on disaffection with Rhodes among normally Democratic urban voters in northern Ohio. Last week a statewide poll by the Akron Beacon Journal showed Celeste moving ahead by four percentage points-quite a turnabout from polls that once gave Rhodes a 20-point lead. But Rhodes professes to be unconcerned. Said he: "I haven't even opened...
...shift your attention to the Northern hemisphere for a seminar on "East Germany, West Germany and Eurocommunism." But you will only have to walk next door, to Room 4, 1737 Cambridge St., to hear Peter Christian Ludz, a professor at Munich University, expound on this subject. The talk is scheduled for this afternoon...
...northern settlements Israel's pioneers were encouraged to invest their own money. One who did was Eliezer Shmuel, 31. He fought in Sinai with the army during the 1973 October War and returned to invest $17,000 in a seaside restaurant. Now Shmuel hopes bravely that "the people who brought me here will take care of me." But in the barren, hard-baked south, between a range of sawtooth mountains and the clearwater, coral-reefed Gulf of Aqaba, the government retained ownership of the land. In Ofira (pop. 1,000), residents enjoy subsidized rents that average $40 a month...