Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are also ominous signs that the army is becoming more polarized, with many regular officers moving to the right. After conservative General António Pires Veloso was recently removed as commander of the Northern Military Region, Oporto, Portugal's second largest city, was racked by violent demonstrations and bombings. In scenes reminiscent of the post-revolutionary turmoil, three Communist headquarters were destroyed...
...Government began damming the lordly 1,210-mile Columbia River; the Grand Coulee, the Bonneville and 24 other dams in the system are the heart of a Northwest network that generates 43% of all the hydroelectric power in the nation, yet even that is not enough. Demand in the region is expected to double in 20 years. Problem: building more dams on the Columbia has been stopped for environmental reasons...
...nuclear power issue is especially sensitive in the Northwest because it involves water?and water, once so bountiful in the region, has become a scarce resource, although heavy rains in western Washington last week forced the evacuation of thousands. Water is competed for by fishing interests, farmers and the builders of power plants. The water that cools the nuclear reactors comes from nearby rivers and is later returned to them warm. Environmentalists claim that the warm water can disrupt the ecology of a stream. They are stubbornly fighting a plan to build two large nuclear plants on the shores...
...accept a law-school scholarship. Now a vice president of the Burlington Northern Railroad, he persuaded the presidents of six Japanese shipping companies - all of whom he knows - to use Seattle as their U.S. port. That move created 3,100 jobs, $50 million in annual direct benefits for the region and helped make Seattle one of the nation's leading containership ports. Watanabe was among the first to urge Dixy Lee Ray to run for Governor, and is chairman of her board of economic advisers...
...People in the region of the upper Yukon refer to their part of Alaska as 'the country' "McPhee explains at the start of the final section, which shares the book's title. "A stranger appearing among them is said to have 'come into the country."' The fact is, almost every white person in the country has been such a stranger at one time or another. In Eagle (population 100), the town McPhee focuses on in the last half of the book, you can count on one hand the adults who are native born. The rest have arrived at some point...