Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only five days and return with even more fish than it landed last week. Since then, huge fleets of modern trawlers from foreign countries, most notably the Soviet Union, Japan, Poland and East Germany, have swept the prime U.S. fishing grounds off New England, the Pacific Northwest and Alaska almost clean of Atlantic cod, yellowtail flounder and haddock; stocks of hake, herring, mackerel and pollack were severely depleted...
...inches; after a heavy snow last week it had risen to only 21 inches. It is the snowpack that replenishes streams, reservoirs and irrigation ditches, and with only a modest runoff in sight, Oregon officials expect as much as a $2 billion economic loss by fall. The Pacific Northwest's forests are so dry and flammable that Oregon Governor Robert Straub has hired 400 unemployed workers to train as fire fighters and is urging the creation of a four-state regional fire-fighting task force to coordinate battles against the flames expected this summer...
...levels of streams, rivers and reservoirs fall, the region is also anticipating hydroelectric power shortages. Unlike many parts of the country, the Northwest relies on water power for some 90% of its electrical needs. Already, the huge Bonneville Power Administration and various utilities are cutting back some industrial users. As the crisis mounts, the Governors of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana will meet next week to plan joint antidrought strategies...
...settlement is just the latest in a string of whopping payoffs in sex-and minority-discrimination suits. AT& T agreed to payments totaling $75 million, mostly to women. Similar proceedings have cost Merrill Lynch $ 1.9 million and Bank of America more than $3 million. Northwest Airlines is fighting a court decision ordering it to pay compensation to some 3000 stewardesses. The cost could run to $40 million. Current targets of such suits include Reader's Digest, Newsday, Saks Fifth Avenue and nine high-priced Manhattan restaurants that refuse to hire women as waitresses. One restaurant that has already knuckled...
...been idled by cold-related shutdowns went back to their jobs. But some workers, such as the more than 3,000 watermen who harvest oysters in Maryland's still iced-over Chesapeake Bay, may have to wait longer to resume earning money, and industries in the Pacific Northwest, confronting a drought that is undermining hydroelectric generating capacity, face power cuts...