Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Weather Service reports that the "flood potential" is high in an area covering western New York and Pennsylvania and extending into most of West Virginia, parts of Ohio and the northeastern tip of Kentucky. Much of that region lies beneath a blanket of snow that is six inches or more thick. Says Herb Lieb, a spokesman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: "It's like a great, frigid lake, ready to run during a sudden thaw. We could have the makings of some real flood disasters...
...American interest in Israel is motivated almost exclusively by nationalist goals," Churba said. "The American policy interest in the region is to avoid Soviet-U.S. nuclear entanglement," he added...
...unemployed executive residing in the "no place to go but up" Middle Atlantic region, I could easily be dispirited. As a young widower raising five children, I could be further dispirited. However, I've never been more optimistic in my entire life. I feel completely assured that President Jimmy Carter will provide the leadership, motivation and quiet enthusiasm that this nation so desperately needs. My five youngsters are doing just great. Quite soon I expect to be back on top of the heap where I belong...
...officials and housed and fed at public expense for six days in a Ramada Inn. In the area as a whole, however, the crisis has heightened rather than eased the traditional tensions between growers and workers. Florida Governor Reubin Askew's success in getting Carter to declare the region a disaster area is resented by the owners in conservative Lake and Orange counties-both of which voted for Gerald Ford in November. They are afraid that the federal funds will go mostly to pickers in the form of unemployment compensation, claiming that many workers will stop picking once...
Schwenk says he would like to spend several months traveling through the Amazon River Basin region before returning for medical school next fall...