Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than a month, meanwhile, Revlon, a star of the cosmetics industry, has been fighting off the advances of Pantry Pride, a Fort Lauderdale-based retail chain whose stores are mostly in the Southeast. Pantry Pride initially offered $47.50 a share and eventually $53, but Revlon Chairman Michel Bergerac landed a $56-a-share bid, for a total of $1.7 billion, from Forstmann Little, a New York investment firm...
...best in the Northeast, the best in the Southeast, the best in the Southwest will all be there...
...strength of the quake set skyscrapers to swaying as far north as Houston, 1,100 miles from the epicenter. A 2-ft. tidal wave rolled ashore on the coast of El Salvador, more than 800 miles to the southeast. Hawaii, 3,500 miles west of the quake in the Pacific, was alerted to prepare for an ocean swell known as a tsunami, but it never materialized...
...government replaced its absolute monarchy in 1932. Last week Coup No. 18, apparently mounted by renegade military officers, took an unexpectedly violent turn. The rebellion was crushed within twelve hours, but it left five people dead and 60 injured. Worse, Thailand's image as an increasingly stable semidemocracy in Southeast Asia may have been tarnished. Said Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda, whose government withstood another military takeover attempt only four years ago: "I don't agree with this method of solving the country's problems...
...last Wednesday, the seven-coach Sud Express, carrying hundreds of Portuguese emigrant workers, pulled out of the main station at Oporto, on Portugal's Atlantic coast, and headed east, destination Paris. Two hours later, a westbound local rumbled out of the Guarda station, some 80 miles southeast of Oporto, and sped toward its final destination, the city of Coimbra. But a fatal miscalculation, which railway officials later attributed to "human error," permitted the two trains to pursue their opposing courses along the same track...