Word: continentality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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He said the huge appetite of the sauropods had a major effect on the continent and its forests of primitive plants.
The event was designed to convey the message that "Columbus Day is not a day of celebration for Native Americans," she said, adding that Columbus's 1492 arrival in the North American continent "started the decimation of Native Americans in the Americas.
That argument, however, is difficult to take seriously in a country with 270 million people spread over a vast continent.
EUROPE. Many pros believe the Continent is just a few years behind the U.S. in terms of corporate restructurings, cost cutting and providing executives with lucrative stock-option incentives. If they are right, the region is ripe for some strong market surges. Loretta Morris, manager of the Nicholas-Applegate Worldwide...
Western Europe should be so lucky. Economic growth resumed there this year, but the projected gains are pretty modest: 2.3% in 1997 and 2.7% in 1998. The fate of the common currency of the European Monetary Union, which is to be inaugurated Jan. 1, 1999, is a big reason. The...