Word: delta
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...shocked and hurt, and then enraged, by his foolish, two-week effort to diss Barack Obama. The next crowd, at Hillary Clinton's closing rally in Columbia, was equally pale and must have been deeply depressing to the ex-President. I remembered a huge interracial crowd in the Mississippi Delta, late in Clinton's presidency. I was standing next to Jesse Jackson, who was quite moved by the "glorious" sight of whites and blacks salt-and-peppered through the audience. I asked Jackson why he found it so moving; he had seen crowds like that before in the South...
...hurt, and then enraged, by his foolish, two-week effort to diss Barack Obama. The next crowd, at Hillary Clinton's closing rally in Columbia, was equally pale and must have been deeply depressing to the ex-President. I remembered a huge inter-racial crowd in the Mississippi Delta, late in Clinton's presidency. I was standing next to Jesse Jackson, who was quite moved by the "glorious" sight of whites and blacks salt-and-peppered through the audience. I asked Jackson why he found it so moving; he had seen crowds like that before in the South. "But look...
...fact, Hong Kong's flirtation with Shenzhen and the surrounding Pearl River Delta is already being consummated. Last month, top officials from Hong Kong and Shenzhen signed an agreement to study jointly developing infrastructure along the border region between the two cities. And, in July, Chinese President Hu Jintao christened a new bridge linking Hong Kong with the Shekou area of Shenzhen, which creates a fourth land crossing for trucks and tourists to stream back and forth...
...manufacturing, but all have been able to shift their economic focus to the service sector as factories moved from New York's lower east side, or London's Park Royal estate, or the thousands of tiny enterprises in Kowloon, to the American sunbelt or up the Pearl River delta from Hong Kong to Guangdong province. All are - or have been - great ports. Today, only Hong Kong of the three wears its seagoing character on its face, with tugs and barges chugging up and down the harbor a stone's throw from the skyscrapers of the banks and trading houses. London...
...recent decades, the Egyptian government has made efforts to build and populate towns in the desert, which would free up valuable agricultural land in the Nile delta. It is one of four urban development plans that Harley evaluated based on the criteria of long-term environmental, economic, and social sustainability...