Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...habitat atop Mt. Graham is unique. Due to the altitude, the climate of northern habitats is reproduced and allows spruce and fir trees, as well as squirrels, to live on the high peaks...
...Bhutto herself ran for two seats. She overwhelmingly won reelection in Larkana in southern Sind Province but suffered a humiliating defeat in the northern city of Peshawar, losing by nearly 12,000 votes...
...report that the tourist business has not yet fully recovered. "The fear factor is gone," proclaims Tapan Munroe, chief economist for Pacific Gas & Electric. Not everyone agrees. In the past year more than 7,000 aftershocks, ranging up to 5.4 on the Richter scale, have been recorded on the northern segment of the San Andreas fault, where the quake struck. Last April, on the 84th anniversary of the Great Quake of 1906, which killed an estimated 2,500 people, a series of nine temblors occurred near the the town of Watsonville, which was severely damaged last October...
...committee also recommended that the Law School construct a four-story, 23,000 square-foot building in the northern part of Holmes Field, the school's main quadrangle, and use it primarily to house faculty offices which would be displaced by the library's new design...
...with Operation Desert Shield, our leaders are reduced to begging foreign powers for the means to support our warrior class. It does not seem to occur to us that the other great northern powers -- Japan, Germany, the Soviet Union -- might not have found the stakes so high or the crisis quite so threatening. It has not penetrated our imagination that in a world where the powerful, industrialized nation-states are at last at peace, there might be other ways to face down a pint-size Third World warrior state than with massive force of arms. Nor have we begun...