Word: southwesterner
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TAKE the First Street Cafe as an example. It's a new restaurant with a Southwestern twist. Its windows offer a scenic view of the Charles River. It's also right next door to the Lechmere department store. But the restaurant's owners fail to see the contradiction...
Like Bush, he is a son of privilege. But the native Texan Baker -- a man who can look natural wearing an elegant suit while chewing a wad of Red Man tobacco -- manages to display the image of Eastern polish mixed with Southwestern earthiness that Bush looks silly trying to project. The family law firm, Baker & Botts, which his great-grandfather joined in 1872, is one of the largest and most prestigious in Houston. Baker was educated at the Hill ! School in Pennsylvania and at Princeton, earned a law degree at the University of Texas, and served in the Marines. Because...
...Cuban news agency Prensa Latina said 40,000 people, many of them foreign vacationers and students, were evacuated yesterday from the Isle of Youth off the southwestern coast as the hurricane passed 200 miles to the south...
When South Africa, Angola and Cuba agreed in principle last month to end the conflict in southwestern Africa, all sides agreed to conduct further talks in secrecy. Last week Pretoria broke that understanding by publicly offering to pull its 3,000 troops out of Angola by September and to grant independence to neighboring Namibia, which it now administers, by next June. South Africa demanded that Cuba also withdraw its estimated 50,000 troops from Angola by June. In response, Cuban Negotiator Carlos Aldana Escalante said it was "preposterous and unrealistic" for his country's soldiers to leave Angola within...
...Hanshin Tigers baseball team, Shingo Furuya, 56, ended a phone call to his wife Akiko with the word sayonara (goodbye) instead of his customary oyasumi (have a good night's sleep). Sensing something wrong, Akiko summoned a taxi and sped 300 miles from the family home in Ashiya, in southwestern Japan, to his hotel in Tokyo. By the time she arrived, early on the morning of July 19, Furuya had leaped from the staircase outside his eighth-floor room to the garden 92 feet below...