Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Livingstone won wider support for slashing subway and bus fares, his policies infuriated many Britons. One of them was Thatcher, who pushed legislation through Parliament abolishing the council in 1986. Out of a job, Livingstone was elected to the House last year from Brent East, in northwest London. His fellow Labor M.P.s shunned him, but party rank and file later elected him to a seat on Labor's ruling council...
...hour northwest of Saigon, government tour guides fire their only major barrage of propaganda. In a lecture complete with pointer and diagrams, Nguyen Viet Hai, 33, details how ingenious Viet Cong escaped detection by U.S. soldiers by hiding out in a network of narrow, subterranean tunnels. Next, visitors are invited to go below ground and taste the claustrophobic flavor of tunnel life for themselves. The guides hasten to point out that the passageways have been enlarged to accommodate Caucasian visitors. Before the group descends, Hai recites the tunnel dwellers' motto: "When you walk without footmarks, when you talk without...
Douglas Groothuis, a research associate at a Christian think tank called Probe Center Northwest and author of Unmasking the New Age, raises a similar objection. "Once you've deified yourself," he says, "which is what the New Age is all about, there is no higher moral absolute. It's a recipe for ethical anarchy. I see it as a counterfeit religious claim. It's both messianic and millennial...
...Stop trading General Mills, influx of orders. Stop trading Northwest Air, influx of orders," command the p.a. speakers at the Pacific Stock Exchange. But the market trend is up. Says Specialist Kurtis Kupiec: "Today the world's a better place...
...disturbing sign of army complicity in the murderous attacks. The rule of law is nonexistent. In August, Louis Eugene Athis, one of seven major presidential candidates, was killed along with two campaign workers by a machete-wielding crowd in a small town south of the capital. In the northwest at least 200 peasants from a land- reform collective were massacred in July by vigilantes believed to be in league with a few large landholders in the area...