Word: northwestern
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Sleet, snow and torrential rain along a front traversing northwestern Europe dumped too much water for the land and the rivers to handle. The result was flooding over thousands of acres that left 100,000 people without fuel and electricity. In several cities the water reached levels not seen since the 18th century...
Brandeis was not alone. Although campus newspapers at such schools as Harvard, Yale, Berkeley and Wisconsin have rejected Holocaust-denial ads and commentaries, they appeared this fall in student publications at Northwestern, the University of Michigan, Notre Dame and Georgetown, among others. Everywhere, they provoked angry letters to the editors and heated campus debates...
...clock struck midnight and Murphy's dream of being a head coach by age 30 was all but over. He had to get on with his life--the Kellogg School at Northwestern had already accepted...
...make matters worse, the twentysomething graduates entering the workplace stand to earn less in inflation-adjusted dollars than their boomer counterparts did a generation ago. Starting pay for new liberal-arts graduates now averages $27,700 a year, according to a Northwestern University annual survey; that falls short of the adjusted entry-level earnings...
...mountainous terrain subject to very heavy snowfalls, avalanches, flooding, severe underground seepage and seismic activity. If, or when, the tailings dump fails, it will funnel heavy metals into Fisher Creek, which becomes the Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone River, the only "wild and scenic" river in northwestern Wyoming. If the Army Corps of Engineers or the Environmental Protection Agency vetoes the wetlands destruction, the next best site would require a more complicated dam, and if, or when, it failed, the mess would head downstream to Yellowstone Park...