Word: basins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kennedy School of Government is helping a Tokyo-based university organize a major new research project designed to investigate the relationship between security, economic, cultural and environmental policies in the Indo-Pacific Basin...
...GULF. Because it is virtually an enclosed basin, with an outlet to the sea only 35 miles wide at the Strait of Hormuz, the gulf is especially vulnerable to oil spills. In a body of water badly contaminated by tankers, garbage and sewage, a disastrous spill of the kind that Iraq caused last week could destroy nesting areas for endangered sea turtles and spawning grounds for shrimp while poisoning tuna, snapper, sardines and anchovies, which are vital to local fishermen. "The ecosystems are endangered anyway," says Frank Barnaby, former director of the Stockholm Peace Research Institute. "Another million barrels...
Mexico. The disruption of cocaine-smuggling routes through Panama as a result of last December's U.S. invasion and stepped-up U.S. surveillance of the Caribbean basin and the Florida coast have sent the drug lords scrambling for their maps. Increasing quantities are being rerouted away from Miami to the U.S.-Mexico border. According to University of Miami professor Bruce Bagley, an expert on the drug trade, smuggling from Mexico now accounts for 70% of the coke that reaches...
...fight inflation, the Bank of Japan is using the only weapon in its arsenal: higher interest rates. A credit squeeze seems likely. John Hickling, portfolio manager of Fidelity Investments' Pacific Basin Fund, thinks the liquidity drought has arrived. Since nothing spooks stock-market investors like the prospect of rising interest rates and a credit crunch, Japanese shareholders have been cleaning out their portfolios, driving the Nikkei average on the Tokyo exchange down more than 30% from its late December high...
...prevent shoplifting by taggers. But it is unlikely that such supply-side measures will quench the tagging urges of the Los Angeles spray-can artist known as Chaka and his competitor Ozone, who have left their gaudy signatures some 15,000 times across the breadth of the Los Angeles basin...