Word: mainland
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Neither of the ethnic communities is altogether satisfied with the status quo. Though the island's 120,000 Turks have controlled the industrialized north since 1974, they lack the skilled manpower to operate the factories. As a result, Turkish Cyprus depends on mainland Turkey for more than half its budget. Even so, Turkish Cypriots are not nostalgic for their former life. They are keenly aware that they are only 18% of the island's 640,000 inhabitants, and they still fear the Greek Cypriots' enduring conviction that Cyprus is inherently Greek...
...Threatening force is most successful when its purpose is to bolster existing governments. In backing the Nationalist government on Taiwan, for example, the U.S. has frequently ordered the Seventh Fleet to steam up and down the Strait of Taiwan near the Chinese mainland and has alerted Air Force bombers based in Japan and Taiwan. In 1959 Cuban-backed insurgents who had landed in Panama to overthrow the government were intimidated into retreating when a U.S. destroyer and minesweeper and patrol planes appeared off the Panamanian coast...
...Sears." The system has produced managers such as C.L. Whitfield of the Guam Radio Shack, who journeyed to Japan to pick up new 40-channel CB radios so he could be the first to sell them on U.S. soil Jan. 1?which was still Dec. 31 on the mainland...
Most Puerto Ricans are apprehensive about statehood because they fear steep federal taxes, and are also afraid that mainland U.S corporations will leave the island, Felix M. Torres '79, a son of Puerto Rican immigrants, said yesterday. The corporations may leave because of a loss of tax incentives and a loss of cheap labor due to an imposition of minimum wage laws, Torres added...
...know yet if there is any urgency about resolving the differences that exist between the mainland and Taiwan. I would go into that very cautiously. We have a defense pact with Taiwan, the Republic of China, and we see the need to have good relationships with the People's Republic. I don't really know to what degree [Taipei and Peking] want to accommodate our commitments and at the same time search for a way to resolve their differences...