Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...controversial 3-2 vote, the Cambridge MBTA Yards Project Review Board last week recommended the Carpenter/Cambridge Associates plans for developing the $4.2 million parcel of land in southwest Harvard Square...
...Congress to vote more financial aid for state inspection agencies. Further, Adams pledged to convene a panel of experts to devise safer ways to transport dangerous cargoes. But there is a growing sense among railroaders that the roadbed problem cannot be neglected much longer. Warned Trini Guillen, southwest regional administrator for the Federal Railroad Administration: "We are playing Russian roulette...
...both man and ape descended from a common ancestor, a beast called Dryopithecus (meaning tree ape), which appeared in Africa some 20 million years ago. But who, or what, preceded it? As far back as 1963, Simons, then at Yale, began uncovering in the wind-scoured Fayum desert region, southwest of Cairo, bones of a likely candidate: a small, fox-sized, tree-inhabiting primate, which he dubbed Aegyptopithecus (Egyptian Ape), that lived some 28 million to 30 million years ago. Returning there last fall, Simons and a colleague from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, John Fleagle...
...history is packed with reminders of far worse. The weather, for example, provoked a major social dislocation in the U.S. in the 1930s when it turned much of the Southwest into the Dust Bowl...
...such carrier is J. Ventura Garcia, 43, of Las Cruces, N. Mex., an assistant professor of speech at New Mexico State University. During a five-month period in 1975 he and his German shepherd, Harmony, were denied admission to three restaurants in the Southwest. Blind friends had mentioned similar incidents, Garcia says, "but in most cases, they simply accepted the embarrassment." After one particularly galling experience at Luby's cafeteria in El Paso, however, Garcia filed suit charging humiliation and denial of civil liberties...