Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...businesses, except for grocery stores, to close. Not until this week was the state expected to return to normal. By comparison, the blizzard left New York City paralyzed for a mere 24 hours and entirely spared the Midwest, which was still digging out from a late January blizzard, that region's worst in a century...
...contract goes through, the HIID will send advisory teams to three different areas in Mali, the western frontier, the south-central region, and the area by the bend in the Niger River. Team Training...
Most figures show that the economies of the Southern and Western states, unlike those of the Northern states (including states in the Great Lakes region), are well recovered from the recent recession. For example, the Sunbelt's unemployment rate has hovered around 6%, while recent Northern rates are approximately 8%. Given the South's attractions for business, including its warmer, less energy-consuming climes and nonunionized labor, the regional imbalance may grow. So increasingly Northern states are looking enviously at one Sunbelt advantage that they believe can be reversed: the hefty portion of federal spending the South receives...
...guarantees to avert bankruptcy for New York City, recalled that many New Deal projects, like the Tennessee Valley Authority, were designed by a largely Northern Administration specifically to aid the South to recover from the Depression. He asked: "What will become of this tradition of national liberalism if the region from whence it emerged should look up two generations later and find that... resources flowed South [but] never North...
...bank, vital to Massachusetts' $500 million-a-year catch, would be protected from even the slightest risks of pollution. Oilmen, who estimate that there may be 180 million to 650 million bbl. of oil and from 1.2 trillion to 4.2 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas in the region, sought to calm the fishermen's fears by promising to take proper precautions against leaks and spills. The Interior Department tried to counter objections by reducing the size of the proposed sale from 155 tracts to 128 covering 700,000 acres...