Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rising 372 ft. into the clear wintry air, the cooling towers of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant dominate the skyline just southeast of the Pennsylvania state capital at Harrisburg. Interstate motorists can spot them as they speed across the Susquehanna River on the Pennsylvania Turnpike; local drivers cannot help seeing them when they reach the top of a long hill on Route 283 and head southeast toward Swatara. Three Mile Island also dominates the thoughts of people who live in the area's small towns and rolling farm lands. "I can't look at those things without...
...rich Sunbelt states of Arizona and Florida hold particular appeal for banks. But until lately, big institutions in New York City and San Francisco left that prime territory to regional banks like Miami's Southeast Banking Corp. ($9 billion). Says Southeast Chairman Charles Zwick...
...last 25 years, teams of scholars from Harvard and Cornell have sifted through the remains of the opulent eastern capital at its site just southeast of ancient Troy. This week, the Fogg Art Museum winds up an exhibition and lecture series celebrating the Silver Jubilee of the Sardis exploration, an ongoing project sponsored jointly by the Fogg and by Cornell University...
...Jersey's thunder had its echoes across the Middle East and beyond. In Tripoli, Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat and 4,000 loyalists were preparing to flee. In the Chouf Mountains southeast of Beirut, Israeli troops helped evacuate Christian civilians and Phalangist militiamen from a town besieged by Druze forces for the past three months. Some 900 miles to the southeast, in the gulf state of Kuwait, terrorists unleashed a wave of suicide attacks that bore the increasingly familiar fingerprints of spreading Shi'ite fanaticism...
...people left in Jucuarán, 80 miles southeast of the capital, the face of El Salvador's revolution belongs to an armed teen-ager with a weakness for American pop. Yet, difficult as it may be to believe, 8,000 guerrillas, many of them just boys, continue to confound the country's U.S.-trained army of 25,500. Since September, when they began their latest offensive, the insurgents have attacked 128 towns and come to dominate six of the nation's 14 provinces. Though the country is in no imminent danger of falling, the momentum...