Word: northwest
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...your fill of creole gumbo and Cajun blackened redfish? Fed up with Southwestern blue cornmeal tortillas, Tex-Mex refried beans and California's baby vegetables and grill-scarred swordfish? Then consider traveling north by northwest to Seattle, where yet another new American regional cuisine is bubbling along. Having simmered slowly over the past eight or nine years, this vibrant, young-spirited cooking is now beginning to achieve finish and form. Whether dubbed Northwestern (because of its almost religious dedication to local products) or Pacific Rim (because it draws inspiration from both Asian and West Coast shore communities), this cuisine...
...industrial might, General Electric was treated like a pip-squeak when it first entered the macho business of building commercial-jet engines. Two decades ago, when a GE representative tried to sell a new engine to Donald Nyrop, then president of Northwest Airlines, the executive pointed to a ceiling fixture and wisecracked, "Whenever I want a light bulb, I'll pick GE's. For jet engines, I'll stick with Pratt & Whitney!" Nearly all jet airliners built at that time, notably the long-range Boeing 707 and shorter- haul McDonnell Douglas DC-9, were powered by engines carrying Pratt & Whitney...
...blades that spin in the open air, the engine looks like a food processor but produces a fuel saving of 40%. McDonnell Douglas has flight-tested the UDF on the prototype for its next midrange plane. But perhaps GE's moment of poetic justice really came last May, when Northwest Airlines, the diehard Pratt buyer, decided to buy 120 of the CFM56 engines. That must have prompted a few smiles at the light-bulb company...
When the conspiracy trial of 13 white supremacists began in Fort Smith, Ark., last February on charges that they were part of a plot to overthrow the Government and establish an Aryan nation in the Pacific Northwest, prosecutors were convinced that a jury would return a guilty verdict. Three of the suspects lead Hitlerite hate groups and claim that the Government is under "Zionist occupation." Nine of the defendants were charged with conspiracy, and five were accused of planning to murder federal officials. Six of the 13 were in jail for other crimes, including two found guilty of murdering Alan...
...Northwest Airlines has apparently decided it is better to switch than fight: as of April 23, the fifth largest U.S. airline will be the first major carrier to ban smoking on all flights within North America. The ban goes beyond federal regulations, scheduled to take effect the same day, that will outlaw smoking on domestic flights of two hours or less. Northwest executives concede that the policy may drive away some puffing passengers, but they believe that many zealous nonsmokers will become new customers...