Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Money. As one of the many hubs of illicit trade between Communist and government zones, the dingy little town northwest of Saigon near the Cambodian border provided extra earnings to the underpaid local soldiers (less than $30 a month for privates). They collected bribes whenever a merchant carrying such items as gasoline and medicine headed into the Communist zone, and again when he returned bringing back fruit or fowl...
...came in the northwest gate without a pause, found himself ushered cheerfully into the visitors' lobby of the West Wing, then next thing he knew he was in the back rooms having a good discussion on health insurance and tax reform with two old friends, Mel Laird and Bryce Harlow. He was led down to the President's office and found himself standing right at the heart of things shaking hands with another congressional friend, Jerry Ford...
...glides across it alone, watching the sun and clouds pass in perfect reflection under his skates. With unabashed enthusiasm, Cole explains his lifetime love affair with Roccus saxatilis (striped bass), that "master of tumbling currents and white-water turbulence." Like a poet, he extolls the virtues of the northwest wind and wonders how city dwellers can live without "knowing which way the wind blows, which way the rain falls, how the sea surges, the land lives and the forests die." There are no environmental or political polemics here, just a vivid and often lyrical journey through...
...rush to exploit new or neglected energy sources is transforming the ranching economy of the whole Rocky Mountain region. In Montana, a $700 million electric generating complex is being built to convert local coal into power for the Pacific Northwest. In Colorado, a consortium of twelve companies is experimenting with ways to tap the oil and gas held in the state's vast shale deposits. In Utah, the leasing of shale lands has pumped $120 million into the state's coffers. But it is in Wyoming, where the antelope still play beside highways, that the changes are most...
...Prince lives at state expense in the 20-room Zarzuela Palace, northwest of Madrid, with his wife, Princess Sofia of Greece, and their three children, Elena, 10, Cristina, 9, and Felipe, 6. He regularly receives important officials in Franco's regime at the palace and sometimes members of the "loyal opposition" and moderate liberals. Visitors report that he is better informed and more intelligent than his reputation suggests. His public image reflects the traditional sporting interests of a princeling. He is often photographed wearing his black karate belt or sailing his Dragon-class La Fortuna; he represented Spain...