Word: northerners
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...economy's spring pickup apparently was "Gulf War-related" --boosted by national euphoria after the victory over Iraq--"and not really an indication that the economy's fundamental problems had been licked," said Robert Dederick, chief economist at the Northern Trust...
...between President Corazon Aquino and former First Lady Imelda Marcos over the burial of deposed dictator Ferdinand Marcos continued last week without resolution. After meeting with 14 Congressmen and governors from northern Luzon, Aquino agreed to allow Marcos' body to be flown directly from Hawaii, where the former President died two years ago, to his northern Luzon birthplace for burial -- providing Marcos' followers would not use the event for political purposes. An agreement seemed at hand...
Until 1987, some Burlington Northern employees received, again by union rules, "hazard pay" for going through "Indian Territory." No wonder railroads have been losing ground to trucking and other, cheaper methods of interstate transport. Or that giant rigs have become a nuisance problem on our nation's highways...
Germany celebrated the first anniversary of unification last week, but the day will be remembered more for the fires that burned across the country than for the holiday fireworks. On the Baltic island of Rugen, right-wing extremists razed a center for asylum seekers. In the northern city of Bremen, a hostel for foreigners was firebombed. Shelters were also torched in Karlsruhe in the southwest and in Dusseldorf in the northwest, where two Lebanese children were severely burned. Altogether there were at least 16 attacks on foreigners within a 24-hour span, rounding off a three-week reign of terror...
...British heroes: the New World needed new ancestors. Washington Irving's 1828 A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus glorified a commanding character with an Italian name and sailing under a Spanish flag who nonetheless displayed virtues and characteristics that U.S. citizens, most of them from northern Europe, could admire. Thus did the heyday of Columbus idolatry begin -- in an early attempt to provide the nation with the icons of multicultural diversity...