Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Side to Evanston four years ago. "It is the only suburb that allows for individuality," she says. "There aren't the same pressures for conformity here. There are so many kinds of people and kinds of circles to choose from." Republican Alderman William Nott, 61, who represents established northwest Evanston, says scornfully: "These independents and liberals want to change things. I'll tell you that a lot of old-time Evanstonians resent them...
...launches, and the threat of collision with other planes. Now pilots have something utterly unexpected to contend with. In its latest "Notams" (Notices to Airmen), the Federal Aviation Administration has warned aircraft to keep clear of four laser experiment sites: McDonald Observatory, near Fort Davis, Texas: a Harvard observatory northwest of Boston: the University of Arizona's Catalina Observatory 20 miles northeast of Tucson: and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Mount Hopkins station 40 miles south of Tucson...
...much of the valley. Gas repairmen laboriously turned off lines in 20,000 homes to avoid explosions, then faced what an official called a "monumental undertaking" to restore service. At Sylmar, telephone equipment was described as "just a jumbled mess." A major artery linking power circuits between the Pacific Northwest and Southern California will take 18 months to repair...
...earth called the San Andreas fault, which begins in the Gulf of California, runs through most of the state, and then bends into the Pacific north of San Francisco. Furthermore, the sliver of land west of the fault, which includes Los Angeles, tends to move inexorably to the northwest, at a molasses-like average pace of an inch or so a year. Slow as that movement is, friction between the land masses causes them to stick together, and strains gradually build up. When the accumulating strain finally reaches the breaking point, the pent-up energy is suddenly released and results...
...unfolded. In the coastal provinces on the Gulf of Siam, ARVN (for Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) troops prepared to slice into new infiltration routes that the Communists had been trying to extend from the Cambodian seaport of Kep into the southern part of South Viet Nam. Northwest of Saigon in Tay Ninh province, 18,000 ARVN armored cavalrymen surged over the border into the Parrot's Beak and the Fishhook. Both sanctuaries were cleared out last spring, but now Communist troops were beginning to drift back...