Word: regional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That small act of concern symbolizes the problem that confronts Governor Dixy Lee Ray, her state of Washington and indeed the entire Pacific Northwest. The unspoiled region is struggling to preserve a natural balance that is threatened by the works of man, striving to encourage progress yet retain the beauty of the forests, the mountains and the seacoast that make the area so mistily appealing and define its very essence...
...states of Washington and Oregon and to neighboring Idaho, and coming fast, but awesome swaths of the Northwest remain untouched. The upland plains and the mountains that march from horizon to horizon still have a feeling of the frontier. Nearly four times the size of New England, the entire region has a population of only 6.8 million?little more than half of that of the other far corner of the country. Americans who live in cities or suburbs can look at large parts of the Northwest and glean a true idea of what the nation was like...
...whole Northwest, and most especially Washington, is entering a crucial phase, one that will decide whether the region can retain the very elements that distinguish it, in substance and flavor, if not literally in every forest and windswept stretch of coastline. Dixy Lee Ray, herself an increasing source of controversy, is right in the middle of the struggle and delighted to be there. With the subtlety of a Seattle stevedore, she is bulldozing ahead on the key issues. Among them...
...costs, administrators receive less revenue the following year and, as a result, face a loss in staff and, eventually, patients. Local regulatory boards also have a disincentive to close down or contain costs in local hospitals because these costs are almost always being covered by money outside the region of the hospital. Closing these hospitals would only serve to create unemployment in the local communities...
...Canal. The rest of Sinai would be demilitarized and policed by a U.N. peace-keeping force. Although American monitoring 8 technicians now in the Sinai should be recalled, the U.S. could help keep the peace by continuing to supply both Cairo and Jerusalem with aerial reconnaissance photographs of the region...