Word: southwester
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...past few years increasing numbers of Haitians, Colombians, Jamaicans, Greeks, Filipinos and Nigerians have joined the migration. The aliens used to do mainly farm work in the South and Southwest. But they have now established enclaves in major urban centers. According to the Immigration and Naturalization Service estimates, there are 50,000 illegal aliens in Washington, D.C., more than 500,000 in Chicago and 1.3 million in the New York metropolitan area. Says Leonard Chapman, who stepped down last month as commissioner of the INS: "We have become the haven for the unemployed of the world. I think...
Southwestern representatives turn up every spring to persuade Harvard students that their real ambition in life is to spend a summer selling the company's dictionaries door-to-door in some remote area of the Southwest...
Sooner or later, the details emerge. The company is Southwestern Publishing, the job is selling dictionaries and encyclopedias door-to-door in the Southwest, and the salary is non-existent. The pay is through commissions, and Southwestern makes no guarantees. Nor do they pay any of the salesmen's expenses...
...Cornell team, headed by Astronomer James Elliot, made its observation last month while flying in a specially equipped C-141 "airborne observatory" through the night sky southwest of Australia. The astronomers had aimed the aircraft's 90-cm. (36-in.) telescope at Uranus, which was passing in front of a distant star in the constellation Libra. By recording variations in light from the star just before and after it was eclipsed by Uranus, they hoped to measure the diameter and study the atmosphere of the planet -which at a distance of 2.8 billion km. (1.7 billion miles) from...
...vasectomy, "or we will burn down your shop." He agreed, even though his wife was past the childbearing age. In Delhi, a man of 25 agreed to be sterilized in order to receive medical treatment at a hospital. After a police attack on the Muslim village of Uttawar, southwest of Delhi, 800 vasectomies were performed-giving Uttawar, as the Indian Express noted, "the dubious distinction of probably having every eligible male sterilized." Across North India, villagers often slept in the fields to avoid the sterilization teams, or hid in their houses during...