Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Near dawn one nippy day last November, several dozen sleepy citizens of Baltimore gathered at the new Reisterstown Plaza station just northwest of downtown. After seven years of jackhammered streets and more than a quarter-century of discussion and planning, they were eager to board the city's gleaming new subway for its first passenger run. Just past 5 a.m., the shiny silver-and-blue Metro cars, built at a cost of $600,000 each, whooshed into view. Marveled Mark Miller, a radio announcer who had risen at 3:30 to catch the inaugural trip: "It was a dream...
...also find yourself in the Schaumburg Snuggery. For navigational purposes, it will help to know that you are 21 miles northwest of Chicago. Not the twilight zone exactly, but not the main stem either. With a little imaginative set decoration, the Schaumburg Snuggery could be converted to a roadhouse from a John O'Hara novel; a juke joint from the Big Band era; a belly-up beer parlor with a platform for a three-piece oldies combo; or the only place in America where no one has heard that disco is dead. A perfect period set-for any period...
...knee, and the four-year-old girl who is looking after him desperately needs help. These are typical of perhaps 10 million "latchkey" children whose parents are away and do not have babysitters. But these three are lucky because they live in a suburban area northwest of Chicago where a 24-hour hot-line service-apparently the nation's first-has been set up to give them comfort and advice. Kids Line reaches out to some 60,000 children under 13 in several predominantly white-collar communities. The program is staffed by 140 volunteers who have undergone intensive briefing...
...flat housing market would eventually crimp sales of building materials and home furnishings, from timber to toilets. The lumber industry is still shaking off the recession and is hardly prepared for a new shock. In the Northwest, the number of sawmills has declined by about 13% since 1979, and their work force has dropped by 20%, to 96,000. Says H.A. Roberts, executive vice president of the Western Wood Products Association: "We're more efficient these days, and sales volume is relatively good. But we're not nearly as healthy...
...Tennessee; Ameritech of Chicago will reach the heartland states of Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio and Wisconsin; Southwestern Bell of St. Louis will join Arkansas, Kansas, Texas, Missouri and Oklahoma; U S West of Denver will cover the largest geographical area, 14 states in the Midwest, Rocky Mountains and Northwest; and Pacific Telesis of San Francisco will oversee California and Nevada...