Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blueprint, perfected by the Southwest experience, is now being adapted to the Northern Plains. One of the first of many projects is an 800 kilovolt (kv) transmission line from Underwood, North Dakota, to Delano, Minnesota, linking into the Midcontinental Area Power Pool, a grid system of public and privately-owned utilities and members of the National Electrical Reliability Council. From Underwood the line is direct current; at Delano it is converted into three separate 345 kv alternating current lines and fed into the power grid...
Officials estimated that Frederic caused $1 billion in property damage in the Mobile area alone. In addition, the hurricane destroyed Alabama's pecan crop and knocked out electric power in the southwest part of the state for at least a week...
...access to rental housing among Cantabrigians of "all income mixes," Brewer said. "The character of the Square, and the pressures all along Mass Ave, are going to be another issue," he added, citing the zoning restrictions put on the Square last year and the debate over development in the southwest corner of the Square as intimations of that concern...
...liberality of spirit, his integrity and flair for leadership, his dedication to the cause of freedom and justice ... He was so rare a person." After the buglers had sounded the last post and reveille, the coffin was taken to Waterloo Station for the final journey to Romsey, 87 miles southwest of London. There, in accordance with his wishes, Mountbatten was buried on the grounds of a 12th century abbey, his body facing...
...construction has required the dismantling of hundreds of feet of the southwest part of the brick wall surrounding Harvard Yard, where all freshmen live...