Word: southwestern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some people still call it Santa Clara County, Calif., but more and more it is referred to as Silicon Valley, the place the miracle-chip industry calls home. Packed into a 10-mile by 25-mile wedge along the southwestern shore of San Francisco Bay are hundreds of the nation's high-technology firms, many of them involved in manufacturing silicon chips, related semiconductor devices and microcomputer-controlled products. At rush hour, cars inch along Highway 101, the valley's main drag, and peel off into the parking lots of well-manicured, one-and two-story buildings with...
...Cathryn Samples of the Connecticut Department of Health said yesterday the A Texas strain has caused large-scale absences from school in most of southwestern Connecticut. Samples said the virus had been detected as far north as Hartford...
...rift could wreck those victory chances. The dispute focuses attention on the all but ignored third partner in the coalition, Fabre's Radicals. By far the most conservative of the three leftist parties, the Radicals draw much of their support from small shopkeepers and professionals, mainly in southwestern France. Although the Radicals command no more than 4% of the left vote, their support may be crucial to the Socialist and Communist parties if they are to get a working majority in the Assembly...
...houses. In Santa Rosa, Calif., a 90-minute commute north of San Francisco, buyers in June began camping out in sleeping bags on a Thursday night to be first in line Saturday morning when 27 houses in a new subdevelopment went on sale. In the Kendall neighborhood of southwestern Dade County, the last open area reasonably close to Miami, prospective buyers on weekends parade caravan-like in cars and campers through flag-festooned developments...
...scandal already has brought consequences. After Gravitt's death, the Texas legislature passed a law giving state rather than city officials the power to approve or deny telephone rate increases In its first rate case decided in 1976, the new state commission gave Southwestern Bell less than one-fifth of a $298 million raise that the company sought...