Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Established four years ago in the hot sun and sand of northern Sinai, 77 miles southwest of Tel Aviv, Yamit, like 15 other settlements near by, was built as an Israeli buffer between the Sinai and the Gaza Strip. Before last week's breakdown in peace talks, Begin had hinted that the territory might be handed back to Cairo. The idea touched off debate and diatribes throughout Israel, and the Premier subsequently said that the settlements would remain under Israeli sovereignty even if the Sinai is returned to Egypt. Prior to that promise, the settlers in Yamit were...
...American Samoa (pop. 31,000), a cluster of seven islands 2,200 miles southwest of Hawaii, annexed by the U.S. after an 1899 treaty with Britain and Germany divided influence over all the Samoas. American Samoa has no formal representation in Washington...
...time of its founding in 1840, on a likely river crossing, by a canny settler of the Texas Republic's northern Indian frontier. Roads and rails soon branched away from the site, and Dallas began to do big business in buying, selling, managing and shipping the goods of the Southwest. In succession came buffalo hides, cotton, wheat and oil, banks to make loans for a percentage of the profits and insurance companies to underwrite them. It is a city of wealth wrought with sharp pencils and calculating minds...
...report on how Brooklyn's billions of tax dollars are used by the Federal Government to transfer Brooklyn industry to the South and Southwest, which will use your denigrating article as a lure to attract more of our business...
...conference on geopressure at the University of Southwest Louisiana in November, a research team that had converted an abandoned gas well into a geopressured test hole reported recovering 10,300 bbl. a day of superheated gas-saturated brine, which yielded up 1.5 million cu. ft. of gas. The Department of Energy's David Lombard estimates that a geopressured well would have to yield 40,000 bbl. of water a day for five to ten years to turn a profit. Whether the reservoirs can produce at that volume is one of the questions to be answered by drilling a series...