Word: northwestern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Field hockey vs. Northwestern, Soldiers Field...
Agriculture Secretary John Block is considering declaring certain areas in the Midwest "agriculture disaster areas," which would free up emergency federal funds. Block had a chance to see the situation for himself this past weekend when he visited his own corn and soybean farm in northwestern Illinois. Says Jim Swise, who helps run Block's farm: "Some of this corn is brown all the way up to the tassel. Corn just doesn't pollinate when it's 100°. Some of it didn't even put out an ear shoot...
...life were a soap opera, then Nixon would undoubtedly be the inspiring heroine who weathers the storm and stress with a patient smile and unwearying resilience. The daughter of a burial-garments manufacturer in Nashville, Aggie Eckardt yearned to write drama. After she graduated from Northwestern University's School of Speech in 1946, her skeptical father got her an audience with the querulous queen of soap opera, the prolific Irna Phillips, creator of The Guiding Light and Another World. Agnes was hired on the spot to be a soap writer in Chicago...
...bonds partly because they seemed to have the solid support of Government agencies. Securities financing the first three plants were backed by the Bonneville Power Administration, which has responsibility for making payments on the debt. To meet that obligation and other costs, BPA has boosted the rates it charges Northwestern utilities by 148% since 1979. The federal agency says it will raise rates further, if necessary, to pay off the bonds, even if only one of the plants is ever finished. Problems could still conceivably arise, however, for owners of Project 1,2 and 3 bonds. It is possible that...
...could write a headline about the whole sorry affair, it would read, WASHINGTON STATE TO INVESTORS: DROP DEAD!" Critics point out that the Northwest has very low electric rates as a result of its cheap hydroelectric power. If the entire cost of all Whoops bonds were pushed into Northwestern electric bills, the rates would still be below the national average. Chemical Bank may ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the Washington ruling and make the Northwestern utilities live up to their contracts...