Word: basin
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...everything but the essential point. European and American interests in commerce, defense and high technology have become so deeply divided that nothing can bring them together again. Good relations will come only when the U.S. gets its troops out of Europe. America's future lies in the Pacific basin, as is clear to anyone who travels there...
Seaga's policies, which are aimed at activating the private sector, have received full support from the Reagan administration. Jamaica currently receives large amounts of and from the United States and under the Administration's proposed Caribbean Basin Initiative it would receive even more aid and more favorable trade agreements...
...strategic importance of the region. "Two-thirds of all our foreign trade and petroleum pass through the Panama Canal and the Caribbean," he said. "In a European crisis, at least half of our supplies for NATO would go through these areas by sea... Because of its importance, the Caribbean Basin is a magnet for adventurism...
...page study, issued after an eight-month investigation, focuses on the April 28, 1982, auction of leases to 13 tracts in the prized Powder River Basin area. Interior officials say the sale, involving more than 21,000 acres" and 1.6 billion tons of coal, was the largest in the nation's history...
...fresh guidelines for the Powder River Basin auction, the committee report said, experts in the regional office of Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) in Casper, Wyo., spent 4,000 man-hours trying to determine the fair market "value" for each tract. But, feeling that the figures were not reliable, department officials in Washington rejected them. Barely one month before the sale, Interior came up with its own "entry level" bids, some of which were as much as half the MMS recommendation. The new prices, said an MMS official who worked on the original set of figures, "were...