Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...announcement came a day after the United States exploded a nuclear device 1,300 feet underground in Rainier Mesa, 93 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nev. The test followed one in Nevada on March...
...antismoking battle has moved from public places to the workplace, where many companies have designated no-smoking areas for their employees. Some firms have found the cost of juggling desks too high and banned smoking entirely. Pacific Northwest Bell, with headquarters in Seattle, forbade the practice when it learned that remodeling would run $60,000. Other firms have reached the same conclusion after prolonged hassles. According to Sandy Robins, director of labor relations for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey, the company "tried separating smokers from nonsmokers. We tried time restrictions. We had the air-conditioning system cleaned...
...Northwest has also become a smuggler's cove. In January the Coast Guard tracked the 195-ft. Honduran freighter Eagle One as it tried to sneak up the California coast toward Seattle. Just outside Puget Sound, drug agents boarded the ship and took it into dock, where they seized 447 lbs. of cocaine in a welded-shut compartment. Says Robert Dreisbach, spokesman for the Seattle office of the DEA: "The smugglers are moving away from the heavily patrolled ports, and we are particularly vulnerable because of our less dense population along an immense amount of coastline...
...mayor of Paris, stomped through farming country near Limoges and demanded new agricultural policies. Raymond Barre, another onetime Premier, was in Paris advocating the deregulation of French industries. And Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the former President, was urging unity among conservatives in the Pas de Calais area of the northwest...
...place they are forgetting isn't all that different from Las Vegas, at least in certain superficial regards. Like Las Vegas, Hibbing sits out in the middle of nowhere, some 60 miles northwest of Duluth. It too is a city of straight streets and flat terrain. It has an MGM lounge (rather more subdued than its Nevada namesake) and a men's store with top hat, gloves and cane outlined in a neon sign (which is, however, seldom lit). Las Vegas may have Wayne Newton and the Golden Nugget, but Hibbing produced Bob Dylan, and it boasts that...