Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Canada DC-9 was approximately 25 miles northwest of Cincinnati when controllers at the Federal Aviation Administration center in Indianapolis heard the pilot's calmly spoken words: "I have a fire on board." It was shortly after 7 p.m. Thursday, and Flight 797, carrying 41 passengers and a crew of five from Dallas and Fort Worth to Toronto, had smoke creeping forward through the cabin from a rear lavatory...
...Northwest Orient jumbo jet was in its berth at Los Angeles International Airport, simmering down after the 13-hour flight from Manila. It had disgorged its captain, crew and 284 passengers, including the unbearably excited young Santiagos...
Utilities in the Pacific Northwest, which agreed to use power from Plants 4 and 5 and were supposed to help finance the project, are now pushing it toward default. They signed contracts, known as take-or-pay agreements, that obligated them to pay for the reactors whether or not they generate any electricity. Now the utilities claim, among other things, that the contracts are unenforceable and that they were misled by official projections about future energy shortages. Most of the utilities have stopped payments to WPPSS, and by the end of June, 88 utilities will owe it $62.4 million...
...Weill, this straightforward musicality puts the brakes on the rambunctious staging. The rhythms of the songs and the pace of the action are too different, which may be why the single most successful moment of the production is the overture, staged in front of a scrim decorated with the Northwest Orient Airlines logo. Blond air hostesses go through the usual check-out procedures, finding some berserk synchronization between their clockwork movements and Sullivan's ravishing score...
...Swedish claims were bolstered when Norway announced that a naval frigate had fired a missile at a suspicious submarine, also believed to be Soviet, near its main naval base northwest of Oslo. Three ships, two submarines and a flock of aircraft joined in a hunt for the vessel, but at week's end it seemed to have disappeared in Norway's rocky fjords...