Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thousands of Massachusetts residents plucked pounds of debris piece-by-piece from the state's beaches yesterday as part of a coastal cleanup effort underway in 29 states nationwide...
Meanwhile, the storm advanced faster and with renewed fury yesterday on Georgia and South Carolina as a flood of coastal residents grabbed what they could carry and fled inland on jammed highways...
Forecasters issued a hurricane watch from St. Augustine, Fla., to Cape Hatteras, N.C. urging coastal residents to begin taking precautions. Hugo picked up speed over open water and could come ashore late today or early tomorrow...
Officials said coastal residents seemed to betaking the right steps, such as storing emergencysupplies and buying materials for boarding...
...Brazilian government, meanwhile, came up with development schemes of its own. In the early 1970s the country built the Trans-Amazon Highway, a system of roads that run west from the coastal city of Recife toward the Peruvian border. The idea was to prompt a land rush similar to the pioneering of the American West. To encourage settlers to brave the jungle, the government offered transportation and other incentives, allowing them to claim land that they had "improved" by cutting down the trees...