Word: northwest
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...desolate scene, a nightly occurrence since late September, could be a dramatic forecast of the future for other cities in the U.S., Europe and Japan. The Pacific Northwest is in the grip of a serious energy crisis, ironically brought on by the same mild weather that allowed the remainder of the nation to slip relatively easily through last winter's fuel-oil shortage. Because snow did not build up in normal amounts in the Cascades and Canadian Rockies, this spring's runoff into the hydroelectric reservoirs along the Columbia River was the lowest in 95 years. The problem...
Even as Speaker, Albert is rarely in the public eye. He lives quietly in a modest apartment in northwest Washington with his wife Mary, a former Pentagon clerk. They have two children: David, 18, a student at Harvard, and Mary Frances, 25, who teaches high school in Washington. To keep his weight down, Albert jogs and swims. He is seldom seen on the cocktail circuit, devotes himself to his family and his work, and his strongest expletive is "jeepers creepers...
...City, Ariz., has drawn 28,000 residents (average age: 67) to a tract 16 miles northwest of Phoenix. It has enough athletic and recreation facilities to train an Olympic team: seven golf courses, four tennis courts, six lawn-bowling greens, a 16-lane bowling alley, Arizona's first indoor, air-conditioned shuffleboard courts, two artificial lakes and a 7,500-seat amphitheater for plays and concerts...
Lake Havasu City, Ariz., is famed as the new home of the London Bridge, which now spans a canal connected to a lake made by damming the Colorado River. The development by McCulloch Properties covers 16,640 acres of gravelly desert 200 miles northwest of Phoenix. Lots and gently curving streets are well laid out, but the development could become a jumble of clashing architectural styles because McCulloch will let a lot buyer put up any kind of house-Cape Cod, Spanish pueblo, Swiss chalet...
...shrewdly exploited his compatriots' fixation on expensive luxuries is Keishiro Funakoshi, proprietor of the Akaneya Coffee Shop in scenic Karuizawa, a popular mountain resort 100 miles northwest of Tokyo. There, for 9,900 yen (roughly $38), he serves what must surely be the world's most expensive cup of coffee. Funakoshi readily concedes that it is not so much the quality of his coffee (a home-blended brew of charcoal-roasted grains freshly ground for each customer) or the decor of his establishment (a narrow, dark wooden hut decorated in rustic Mingei style), as the defiantly exorbitant prices...