Word: basin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration's Caribbean Basin Initiative and the Kissinger Commission report are getting virtually no attention at all. That is because the recommendations they make--for economic aid and trade--are not as glamorous or as interesting as military and covert assistance. But economics and ideology are our strongest suits. If we competed with the Soviet Union in those areas, it would be no contest...
...varsity races in the Charles River Basin at noon, the junior varsity at 11:30 a.m., the first freshman at 10:45, third varsity at 10 and second freshmen...
...some preliminary interviews. "Everyone I talked to," he says, "told me, 'One thing about covering Boone--you'll enjoy yourself.' And they were absolutely right." Ungeheuer retraced Pickens' life from its beginnings in Holdenville, Okla., to his early days as a geologist and wildcatter in the Southwest's Anadarko Basin, to Denver, Houston, Wall Street and Amarillo, Texas, his present home and headquarters...
Detective John Flynn of the Lower Basin division of the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC), which is heading the investigation, to refused to discuss the case yesterday...
Even as coca production continues to thrive in Peru and Bolivia, it has also begun to explode in previously undeveloped areas, such as Brazil's Amazon River Basin, a wilderness of lush jungles and rivers that is almost two-thirds the size of the U.S. Three years ago, policemen noticed that relatively primitive Indians were suddenly sporting modern clothes and traveling in motorboats. The peasants, they learned, had been pressured by Colombians into cultivating epadu, a shrubby small tree that can grow in the forest and attain a height of 10 ft. Epadu contains about 40% less active alkaloid than...