Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...promoters and government bungling helped mire the communities in their fix. But the root cause was nothing more sinister than the hope of the down-and-out for a slice of the American dream. Since the '60s, low-income families from El Paso's barrio, 15 miles to the northwest, have been moving here, lured by the open spaces and the hype of half-acre lots for as little as $1,000 down and $100 a month. Water, they were assured, would be forthcoming. And it was, until 1979, when the influx became such an avalanche that El Paso...
...think dress guidelines are stupid," Lisa Bequette was saying just the other day, before beginning 8th grade at Maryland's Mount Airy Middle School, northwest of Washington. "I would wear a cropped T shirt to school. Why should they tell me not to show my belly button?" Good thing she is a little too young to meet Brendan McReady at a mixer. McReady, a junior at Bethesda- Chevy Chase High School, has some sentimental regard for the school uniforms at an alma mater: "Everyone wore the same thing every day, so perhaps it was easier. You'd get up, throw...
...Texas to evacuate the Gulf coast and billions of dollars worth of damage in Jamaica and Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. In Bangladesh, some 40,000 homes have been destroyed by flooding and the stagnating flood waters may spread disease through most of the population. The forest fires in the Northwest, exacerbated by the weather, have burned an area approximately the size of Connecticut and still have not been brought under control...
They are already known as the "first Canadians." Now 13,000 native Indians and metis (of mixed European and Indian stock) who inhabit the Mackenzie River Valley in Canada's Northwest Territories are about to become the region's biggest landlords. With drums beating a steady cadence and 1,000 Dogrib, Slavey, Chipewyan and Cree Indians and metis looking on, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney last week signed a tentative agreement calling for $403 million and 109,000 sq. mi. of federal lands to be turned over to native peoples in the western subarctic end of the region that stretches across...
...yesterday, the storm center was about 340 miles southeast of Brownsville, moving west-northwest at about 15 mph and dumping about 10 inches of rain, according to the National Weather Service...