Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conditioners and the double-paned windows that you'll find are just one by-product of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority's (MBTA) half-a-billion-dollar decision to extend the Red Line subway to the northwest...
Until now, U.S. ships on station in the Indian Ocean have been fed by supply lines stretching to Subic Bay in the Philippines, about 3,600 miles to the east, or to the Mediterranean Sea, some 3,200 miles to the northwest. Meanwhile, an imposing Soviet fleet calls at bases around the rim of the Indian Ocean, including an anchorage on the island of Socotra in the mouth of the Gulf of Aden. The Soviets are currently seeking permission to build a base in the Seychelles, 1,200 miles west of Diego Garcia, though President Albert Rene insists he will...
...major lines, though, are beginning to take notice of the roaring mouse. When Midway announced $44 tickets between Chicago and Minneapolis, Northwest immediately cut its fare by as much as $52 to match the price, and taxied up four daily flights...
...months ahead, residents of Ritzville and a large slice of the Northwest will have to live with the ash, a visible reminder of the titanic forces of nature that shape the earth. To volcano experts Mount St. Helens may be a baby and its eruption second-rate. But to the people in its path it was a catastrophe...
Until St. Helens' sudden reawakening, many Americans had blithely assumed that most of the volcanoes of their own Northwest were "dead." But scientists knew better. Only two years ago, two volcanologists from the Geological Survey made a perspicacious forecast. They wrote, "In the future, Mount St. Helens probably will erupt violently and intermittently just as it has in the recent life past, and these future eruptions will affect human life and health, property, agriculture and general economic welfare over a broad area...