Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...army first launched its new style of campaign in the Guatemalan departments of Chimaltenango, Sololá and Quezaltenango, major tourist and agricultural areas west of the capital. After resisting briefly, most of the guerrillas quickly moved elsewhere. Now the army is massing its forces in the northwest department of El Quiché, a mountainous jungle area that is considered to be one of the guerrillas' major strongholds. The rugged terrain favors the insurgents, who are surprisingly well equipped. At one fortification discovered in the earlier sweep, the soldiers found networks of tunnels and supplies of M16 rifles...
...Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Act, which set the ground rules for the project as early as 1976. The three U.S. natural gas producers involved in the deal-Exxon, Standard Oil of Ohio and Atlantic Richfield-will be allowed to share ownership in the pipeline with the Alaskan Northwest Natural Gas Transportation Co., the ten-company consortium that plans to build it. A1977 presidential decision barred such an agreement on antitrust grounds, but the backers argued that the change was needed to pay for the project...
...until the explosions began. A mixed group of some 300 U.S. and Egyptian army officers and accompanying gold-braided foreign military attachés lounged under black and red cloth tents in the chilly winter air near Wâdi el Natrûn, an oasis about 78 miles northwest of Cairo. Turbaned waiters, wearing flowing, blue-gray robes, or gallabiyas, served coffee, tea and box lunches...
...years ago, Bill Nicolai, 36, an avid backpacker, relied on food stamps to eat. After his tent was destroyed in a snowstorm in the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest, he designed a tougher tent to replace it and began offering it through the mail. Last year Early Winters, the hiking-equipment catalogue business Nicolai founded, had sales of $7.2 million, and he expects them to reach $10 million this year...
Three weeks ago, James and Patricia Allen moved into their new three-bedroom, 1,000-sq.-ft. cottage home 33 miles northwest of Houston. Allen, 38, who builds displays for oil and gas exhibitions, was looking for something near his job. The couple has three children, ages six, four and two, and plans to move in a few years into a bigger place. Says Patricia: "I wouldn't be happy here if I knew I had to live in this house for the rest of my life. But since it's a semi-temporary situation, I can live...