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Word: norths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nonetheless, within 24 hours Israel defiantly struck north into Lebanon again, this time with a ground assault that blew up a house suspected of harboring Palestinian terrorists in the frontier village of Majdal Silm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Flags, Flare-Ups, Fiscal Troubles | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...luxurious rented apartment on La Croisette after a lucky evening at the roulette tables. As the elevator doors let him out on the fourth floor, two sportily dressed young men-one described as a tall, blond European, the other as a slighter, darker man who could have been North African-pounced from the corridor. After a scuffle and a shot, the Palestinian was left dying with a .32-cal. bullet in his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Flags, Flare-Ups, Fiscal Troubles | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...largest in its history, has already budgeted about $640 million to build an engine plant in Mexico and to increase production at the Pennsylvania plant from the present 800 autos per day to 1,040 by 1981 . Schmücker's strategy is eventually to make the North American operation 90% self-sufficient, with only transmissions supplied from German plants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: VW's New Drive | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

Modifying an engine to run on ethanol requires only simple carburetor adjustments. One recent convert is Manhattan cabby William Bly, who last month logged more than 1,000 miles on alcohol from a still built by The Mother Earth News, a North Carolina counterculture magazine. Says he: "The car ran beautifully-no knocks, no stalls, no nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Home-Brew Fuel | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...brightly painted room at the airy Methodist Church in Palmyra, Wis., resembles any nursery school. But the kids in Palmyra are not the usual class. Their parents are migrant farm workers, mostly Spanish-speaking of Mexican descent, who travel north from Texas to harvest onions in Wisconsin. Their average wage is $3.40 an hour. Families are on the road during June, September and October, school months for most other youngsters. Migrant children are often left by themselves, to pass the summer days playing in the dirt or escaping the heat under trucks and battered cars, while both parents work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harvest of Hope | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

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