Word: southwestern
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...hard to see why. Heinz, 34, has drawn heavily upon his own funds and talents to represent the polyglot residents of his district, which includes the northern and southwestern suburbs of Pittsburgh. In a single year he has built up one of the best political organizations in the western part of the state. A former advance man for Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott, Heinz is already being eyed as a possible successor for Scott's seat...
...time spent has paid off. Take it Easy soared to the top of the AM charts and the album followed. The rock press treated Eagles very well and fours have cemented the band's place as one to be reckoned with. The album is interesting primarily for its uniquely southwestern orientation. There is a form fusion of folk-rock and straight country, and it meets in Colorado. (Which makes their warm up gigs in Aspen that much more interesting...
...company that Zapata controlled. In a complicated series of transactions, Mize made Southdown an entirely separate company, severing all its ties with Zapata. He also resigned from Zapata and named himself chairman of Southdown. Again Mize went back to making acquisitions, mostly in exchange for Southdown securities. He bought Southwestern Portland Cement and Pearl Brewing and formed Pelto Oil to expand Southdown's oil and gas activities in the oil and gas business...
...couple of million people on what is to come next Here in the Southwest we will again be exploited by builders of power plants whose benefits go to southern Nevada and California. It should be interesting to watch a modern-day range war come into play when Southwestern farmers, already severely handicapped by drought, have to give up water and clean air to run those belching poisonous monsters that provide power for electric toothbrushes, hair-setters, shavers, cutting knives, can openers and pencil sharpeners...
...feeble attempt to become godlike, to master the world around him. It is, in short, magic, the earliest of man's religious responses. The world's oldest art works, the primitive animal paintings in the cave at Lascaux in southwestern France, for example, were Stone Age man's magical invocation of success in the hunt. The astrology so many millions follow today is a direct legacy from the astronomer priests of Babylonia. Even when Christianity spread through Europe, many in the countryside kept their rustic rites along with the new religion. ("Pagan" stems from the Latin paganus meaning "country dweller...