Word: northerns
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...elected. Richard Nixon resigned to avoid impeachment.) This simple, singular fact will overpower other things for which Clinton might take credit: half a dozen years of unexampled prosperity; a balanced budget; a capture of the political middle from the Republicans; and persistent efforts to stop the killing in Northern Ireland, the Middle East, Bosnia and Kosovo...
...area stretches southwest from the Theater District and westward along the Mass Pike until Copley Square. The "Emerald Necklace" laid out by Frederick Law Olmsted, Class of 1894, borders it on the west. Its southern border is less distinct, eventually melting into northern Roxbury along an ambiguous dividing line...
Gene Cavanaugh, a 68-year-old Northern Californian, is adamant that he's got a lot of years left, which is his justification for keeping the half of his net worth that's not invested in Texas and California real estate in the stock market. A former software executive who dabbles in patent law, he has watched his retirement stock portfolio grow by an average annual return of 20% over the past 10 years. "I'm pretty dedicated to the idea of trying to get a surplus on my money," says Cavanaugh. "If I had money I wanted to salt...
...would be hard to find someone better qualified for the job than Dombeck. Born in the lake country of northern Wisconsin in 1948, he grew up in the Chequamegon National Forest--hunting, fishing and climbing fire towers. He was a fishing guide, taught high school science classes and earned a doctorate in fisheries biology before working his way up the ranks of the Forest Service. He became the science adviser for the Bureau of Land Management and in 1994 was selected to head the bureau--where he caught the eye of the White House...
...hell for politicians, but not if it's conducted away from the headlines. In a familiar story that hardly makes the papers anymore, U.S. planes struck five targets in northern Iraq Thursday; according to Iraqi officials, two civilians were among the dead. "Senior U.S. officials are happy that they're able to downgrade Iraq's defenses without any of the negative reaction that followed Operation Desert Fox," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "In these skirmishes over the 'no-fly' zone, we've already destroyed as much of Iraq's defenses as we did during the December strikes...