Word: southeasterners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Public higher education is part of the solution to what ills the Common-wealth, not part of the problem," John Theriault, a senior at Southeastern Massachusetts University, told the audience...
Among other things, the commission has looked at the possibility of seeking independence from the regents, according to spokesperson Mark Horan. Paleologos said the university has also pushed for the take-over of Southeastern Massachusetts University and the University of Lowell...
...warheads in Turkey. But the Soviet missiles were intended, at least in part, to neutralize the threat of a U.S. invasion of the island, which Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and Cuba's Fidel Castro believed to be imminent. Despite the movement of U.S. air and land forces to the southeastern U.S. in the early fall of 1962 and the fact that an invasion was proposed to Kennedy as a serious option (he rejected it), McNamara insists that such an action was never in the works. But, he added, "if I were in ((the Cubans')) shoes, I have no doubt that...
Oddly enough, a facility exists for permanent burial of the waste. In fact, the Government's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, a gigantic hole in a salt bed 2,150 ft. beneath southeastern New Mexico, was supposed to start receiving waste (primarily clothing and tools contaminated by radiation) from Rocky Flats and nine other atomic plants around the country this month. In theory, the salt will creep back around the waste, sealing it harmlessly into the earth. But safety concerns and legal problems have put off the opening date to -- well, when? August at the earliest, says the Department of Energy...
...decades ago, the author began working as a seasonal fire lookout and park ranger in outposts like Arches National Park in southeastern Utah. Out of these cherished stints of lonely brooding came such collections of marvelously cross-grained essays as Desert Solitaire and Abbey's Road, and that wistful novel of eco-banditry The Monkey Wrench Gang...