Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...farm still had enough value to protect him from foreclosure. "Burr was not destitute," Neil Milner of the Iowa Bankers Association says. "There had to be other emotional considerations that led him to cold-blooded murder." A cruel irony was that Hills Bank President Hughes had a reputation throughout southeast Iowa as a farmer's friend. Ray Marner Jr. of Lone Tree's Farmers & Merchants Savings Bank recalled, "He realized how hard it is to turn down someone for a loan during the week, when you have to sit next to them in church on Sunday." Hughes, whose bank...
When the airline industry was deregulated in 1978, American, Delta, United and other major carriers abandoned many unprofitable routes serving smaller cities. Into the void flew a fleet of plucky commuter lines. Relying largely on twin-engine turboprops, the regional airlines, including Atlantic Southeast, Air Wisconsin and Ransome, began turning profits in markets where bigger airlines and their larger planes had lost money...
...doughnuts for an early-morning meeting. At his office door, Christensen, 31, reached down to pick up a cardboard parcel with his name on it, and a shrapnel-filled bomb inside blew up in his face, killing him. Some 90 minutes later, in the hilly suburb of Holladay southeast of the city, Kathleen Sheets, 50, returned home from a walk. She bent down to pick up a curious package, with her husband's name on it, sitting by the corner of the garage. The parcel exploded, and Sheets was killed...
...island is normally swept by tradewinds from the northeast, but the torrential rains pounding Puerto Rico early last week came from the southeast, borne by a tropical wave that stalled and refused to move along. In three days, up to 15 in. of water spilled from the skies. In the hillside barrio of Mameyes, an impoverished community of more than 1,500 residents above the south-coast industrial city of Ponce (pop. 250,000), the downpour caused little of the flooding that afflicted lower-lying areas of the island. The 30 degrees slope on which Mameyes' wood and corrugated...
...People fail to consider the value of our holding on for 10 years against Communist aggression in Southeast Asia," said Westmoreland. "We protected Southeast Asian countries from Communism...by stopping the 'domino theory'" of one country after another falling to communism...