Word: northwest
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...stepped out of the swinging door from the Northwest terminal and headed down the stairs to baggage claim, tiredly listening to the heavy Boston accents of the people in front of me. When I finally claimed my bags and dragged them outside, I felt a strong breeze and slightly humid air on my skin...
Wilson has spent most of his life in Johnstown, New York, an ethnic blue-collar town of 9,000 people, located about 45 miles northwest of Albany. The Wilsons live outside the town in a rural house. Behind their house is a cow farm; to the left, a horse farm...
...Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battle-ground, author Peter Svenson illuminates the importance of this small patch of land in the Shenandoah Valley of northwest Virginia. Svenson does not try to argue that Cross Keys was in some way the most important battlefield of the Civil War. Rather, he reveals how the very elements that make Cross Keys like so many other battlefields also make it unique. In his narrative, Cross Keys becomes a place where the "great themes" of American History were fought out by individuals with their own historical identities on a Sunday in June, 1862. The land...
...MAJOR INVESTORS IN CONTINENTAL AIRLINES AND NORTHwest Airlines are quietly talking merger. DAVID BONDERMAN, whose investor group controls 28.7% of Continental Airlines, and RICHARD C. BLUM, a key Northwest Airlines board member, recently held a secret meeting in the very conspicuous Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles. If the two can work out the snags -- such as the fact that Air Canada owns a chunk of Continental -- Bonderman and Blum could make a deal that would shake up the airline industry...
Before the riot, the poor could at least gain a toehold in neighborhoods like the one at 14th and U streets in Northwest Washington, where the violence began. Though the district had faded badly from its heyday in the 1940s, when it ranked among the most vibrant black communities in the nation, it still had movie theaters, nightclubs and scores of thriving businesses. True, schools were slipping, crime was getting worse and some of the more affluent residents had moved away. But most of the area's hardworking families had no intention of abandoning one of the few relatively decent...