Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That small act of concern symbolizes the problem that confronts Governor Dixy Lee Ray, her state of Washington and indeed the entire Pacific Northwest. The unspoiled region is struggling to preserve a natural balance that is threatened by the works of man, striving to encourage progress yet retain the beauty of the forests, the mountains and the seacoast that make the area so mistily appealing and define its very essence...
Change is coming to the coastal states of Washington and Oregon and to neighboring Idaho, and coming fast, but awesome swaths of the Northwest remain untouched. The upland plains and the mountains that march from horizon to horizon still have a feeling of the frontier. Nearly four times the size of New England, the entire region has a population of only 6.8 million?little more than half of that of the other far corner of the country. Americans who live in cities or suburbs can look at large parts of the Northwest and glean a true idea of what...
Even the city dwellers of the Northwest live close to the land, their concerns and dreams shaped by their environment. Other Americans worry about urban blight, street crime, racial trouble, chronic unemployment. But not the Northwest. Its economy, based on the renewable resources of forests and farms, is expanding strongly. Its biggest manufacturer, Boeing, has a $5 billion backlog of orders. Its two major cities?Seattle (pop. 496,000) and Portland (377,000)?are bustling, clean and eminently livable. There are too few blacks for any real racial problems, and the small Indian minority?.8% of the population?...
...Southern Baptist is in the White House, and it is evangelical Protestants who provide the most militant force for traditional morality. Anita Bryant, for one, frequently cites Scripture to support her antihomosexual campaign. Says her minister, the Rev. William Chapman of Miami's Northwest Baptist Church, with a rich gumbo of metaphors, "We're getting to the scum line in American society. People's lives are coming apart at the seams. People have burnt themselves out chewing on the cob of the liberal. We've listened to the liberal for 15 years, and what...
...spectacular shot; a confused subplot about an Army cover-up of UFO research looks like a hasty bow to Watergate-era current events; an attenuated mountainside chase has little purpose beyond allowing Spielberg to pay homage to the famous crop-duster and Mount Rushmore sequences of North by Northwest. If any of these elements were removed from the film, they would not be missed...