Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...variety of special programs. About one-fourth of the regular students will be Harvard undergraduates, and the rest will come from all over--some from other Ivy League schools, some from other colleges in the Boston area and some from small black and Chicano colleges in the South and Southwest There is always a sizeable contingent of foreign students, mostly from Japan, as well as a chunk who live in and around Boston but go to college in other parts of the country...
...snafus at Dallas-Fort Worth, the distance from downtown, and the exorbitant runway fees, Braniff and Texas International have moved part of their operations back to the old Love Field, only five miles from Dallas. Delta also is considering pulling some of its flights out of the giant airport. Southwest Airlines, which never moved from Love (despite lawsuits filed by the city of Dallas in an attempt to force the line to fly from Dallas-Fort Worth), has recorded nearly a 100% increase in passengers and profits...
...about how its activity affects the formation of mineral deposits, changes the ocean floor and even causes the slow movement of entire continents. During the next three months French and American scientists hope to learn much more about the mysterious undersea area by prowling the depths some 200 miles southwest of the Azores. Their goal: the exploration of a small section of the great volcanic rift valley that cleaves the Atlantic Ocean bottom almost all the way from the Arctic to Antarctica...
...companies and generally disrupted the entire economy. Last week it appeared finally to top out; indeed, banks' prime rate, or basic charge on business loans, began inching down. Manhattan's First National City Bank trimmed its prune a quarter of a point, to 11¼%, as did Southwest Bank of St. Louis and First National of Miami. Two Midwestern banks with the nation's highest prime rates also made reductions: Chicago's First National, from 11¾% to 11.6%, and Lansing's Michigan National, from 11¾% to 11¼%. The lowest prune rate...
...Being Chicano myself and knowing the film is banned in my home state, New Mexico, I was profoundly affected. The impact of observing those women overcome their exploitative circumstances was enhanced by meeting, that same night, a woman possessing the same strengths and experiences of poor Chicanas in the Southwest. The only difference was that she was Puerto Rican and from New York City...