Word: northerner
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...latest examples is Chevron Corp., which is building new offices in the northern suburbs, 40 miles north of the city across Lake Pontchartrain, and plans to transfer 550 employees from New Orleans to Covington by the end of the year. That would take well-paid people out of downtown New Orleans, a move that will impact the central business district's economy. "We made the decision in May, 2006, when our employees were making important housing decisions," says Qi Wilson, a Chevron spokesperson. The company, like many employees, decided the north shore offered better security should another hurricane strike, along...
...first term. When the first Congress reached an impasse over two issues--where to locate the permanent capital city and how to pay off the Revolutionary War debt--Thomas Jefferson asked Alexander Hamilton and James Madison to share a meal at which the three men struck a bargain: the Northern states would agree to locate the capital in the South, and the Southern states would assent to the Federal Government's assumption of the debt, even though most of the South had already paid up. The nascent nation survived to fight another day. Later, because of the power granted...
...shisha bars have also become a venue for social interaction between more tradition-oriented British Muslims and elements of the wider society. In the northern city of Bradford, scarred by race riots in 2001, a local entrepreneur opened the town's first dedicated shisha lounge two years...
...known better. On June 30, Japan's defense minister gave a speech on World War II at a university outside of Tokyo, where he told students that Japan could have easily ended up divided like its wartime ally Germany had the Soviet Union decided to invade Tokyo's defenseless northern island of Hokkaido in the closing weeks of the war. What stopped the Russians, Kyuma argued, was the American atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. "I understand that the bombings brought the war to its end," said Kyuma. "I think it was something that couldn't be helped...
...Those travel plans are now on hold. Driving on a highway in northern England this weekend, with his Jordanian wife Rawan and their young son in the car alongside him, Asha was picked up by police on suspicion of involvement in the attempted bombings of targets in London and Glasgow. His wife was also detained. Police are currently questioning Asha at a central London police station. Neither has been charged...