Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soldiers mobilized along the perimeters of U.S. installations a few miles northwest of Panama City. Lines of armored personnel carriers and trucks stood at the ready inside the boundary of Fort Clayton...
...small but symbolically important first step would be to halt deforestation of ancient forests in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Incredibly, the Government spends $40 million yearly building logging roads and subsidizing the destruction of virgin forests on public lands. If the U.S. protected its last old-growth woodlands, American officials would have more credibility when asking tropical nations to stop the relentless cutting of their rain forests...
...ecological symposium that led to TIME's selection of the endangered earth as Planet of the Year. "This has been a busy year," says sciences editor Charles Alexander. "We ran a story on the environment about every other week, including reports on logging in the Northwest and Japan's environmental practices, and covers on the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska and the rain forests in the Amazon." Our guests at both conferences at least agreed on one thing: next year promises to be as hectic as this year on the international and environmental fronts...
...ordered the Department of Energy to focus on building a national dump site in Nevada. By 2003, the Government promised, spent fuel from the country's 110 commercial nuclear reactors would be trundled across states and safely buried deep within Yucca Mountain, an isolated peak about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. But that forecast, like an earlier one predicting a national dump site by 1998, proved too rosy. Last week energy officials pushed back the opening to at least...
Textile Titan. Many skeptical eyes are turned on William Farley, the physical-fitness buff who acquired Northwest Industries, the maker of Fruit of the Loom products, for $1 billion in 1985. Last February Farley took over textile giant West Point-Pepperell in a $3 billion raid that included $1.6 billion of junk-bond financing. A fellow raider calls Farley's debt a "time bomb." While Farley once joked that "we're doing fine, except that the banks expect us to pay them back," he now refuses to discuss his finances or the subject of raiding. Says he: "I'm staying...