Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well-integrated on paper (roughly) half white, half Black or Hispanic), the rents that have risen as much as 70 percent in three years have pushed the minorities, Blacks in particular, away from the center of the Jamaica Plain neighborhood. Most have ended up on the neighborhood's northwest fringe, not too far from the edges of Roxbury, Boston's Black ghetto. The Black residents are simply being compressed into smaller areas; according to MIT urban studies professor Yohel Camayd-Freixas, the central Jamaica Plain area averages two or three persons per hours, in contrast to twelve in the mostly...
...Soviets, the Canadian rescue erases some of the ill will generated in 1978 when a falling Soviet satellite scattered radioactive materials over a wide area of the Northwest Territories. It also gives Moscow another space first on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the launch of the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, on Oct. 4, 1957. Above all, it proves that a satellite several hundred miles above the earth can pick up a signal as weak as that of the single-engine plane. Said one of the rescued men, George Heemskeerk of Brampton, Ont.: "We should...
...various organizations and ran a charter boat service to the South Pacific (several team members, including Burton, also got married), Transglobe proceeded by ship toward its next destination, the North Pole. Fiennes and Burton navigated the Yukon River by motorized rubber raft, sailed 3,000 miles along the Northwest Passage in the whaler and camped for the four-month Arctic night at Ellesmere Island. They reached the North Pole by snowmobile just before midnight last April 10 and celebrated with well-chilled champagne and a chocolate Easter...
Just before noon one day last week, a man wearing a straw hat strolled through the back door of Bob Moore's Welding & Machine Service, Inc., a two-story shop in northwest Miami, opened fire with a shotgun, and killed eight workers and wounded three others. Then he calmly walked out the back door and, slinging his gun over his shoulder, climbed onto his bicycle and pedaled away. He did not get far. Investigators later found the gunman sprawled dead a few blocks away, his straw hat at his feet and his bike leaning haphazardly against a utility pole...
...Urumieh, located in northwest Iran, all one sees are soldiers, Islamic Guards, veiled women and sallow-faced, apprehensive men and children. The city, once among the cleanest and most picturesque in Iran, is now an eyesore: a panorama of uncollected garbage, decaying public works, empty shops and people in tattered clothes...