Word: upper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once the North had won the Civil War, the direction of future expansion, both in the West and overseas, was set. Markets, outlets for investment and, secondarily, sources of raw materials were what the North wanted, not slave labor territories to support a landed upper class...
Adams House, where Tetirick says he is one of only two varsity gridders, is a far cry from the atmosphere of Columbus, Ohio, where he played on three consecutive state championship teams at Upper Arlington High School...
...ACORN has fought for and won parks, stop lights, better drainage systems, and numerous other features that help make neighborhoods better places to live, and which have long been the exclusive property of the upper classes in Arkansas...
...here," he says. "After that I started wondering how all of them did." Saxbe counts as his main achievement in the Senate his co-sponsorship of a rules change that effectively ended the filibuster. He grew increasingly frustrated at the slow pace of business in the clubby upper house, and last month, to no one's surprise, announced that he would not seek another term...
Terrible Mistakes. In Africa, a five-year drought has parched the 2,600 mile-long "savannah belt," just south of the Sahara Desert. As a result, large portions of six African nations-Senegal, Mauritania, Upper Volta, Mali, Chad and Niger-now subsist mainly on international contributions of food (TIME, Sept. 3). Although man cannot be blamed for the lack of rain, a recent study by the U.S. Agency for International Development reports that the Africans' efforts to gain a better living from the potentially productive land have made a bad situation much worse...