Word: mainland
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...Sardinia and in the northern border regions of Valle D'Aosta, Trentino-Alto Adige and Friuli-Venezia Giulia, where the demand for local government has been particularly strident. In this week's elections members of similar councils are being selected in the 15 other principal regions of mainland Italy. Twelve of the 15 lean toward the Christian Democrats. In the others, Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany and Umbria, which constitute the Red Belt above Rome, Communists are expected to have the strongest voices in the new councils...
...working for weeks at a time on a remote island; no women were on hand to distract him. In these monastic circumstances, he soon noticed an intriguing phenomenon: his beard was growing less rapidly than normal. Furthermore, on the day before each of his periodic returns to the mainland and reunions with a receptive female (also unidentified), his facial hair began to sprout at a prodigious rate. The implications were staggering. Could the mere thought of sex stimulate a darker 5 o'clock shadow...
UNITED STATES. Now threatened with extinction, to join the Eastern elk and passenger pigeon, are the American alligator, Southern bald eagle, Columbian white-tailed deer, Utah prairie dog and ivory-billed woodpecker, the largest woodpecker in the U.S. Even so, the mainland has a good record compared with Hawaii, which has destroyed more native plants and animals in the 192 years since Captain Cook's arrival than has all the rest of America in the same period. Hawaii's endangered wildlife -partly ravaged by the introduction of outside predators like mongooses and rats-includes all the fresh-water...
...only troublesome aspect of the visit was providing security for Chiang, who is expected eventually to succeed his father as Chief of State. While the Nationalists have contributed greatly to economic progress on Taiwan since they fled the Chinese mainland in 1949, their takeover of the island is bitterly resented by many Taiwanese, who also object to the autocratic power of the Chinese Nationalist government. Operating mainly out of the haven of other countries, most notably the U.S., a movement of such Taiwanese is agitating for an independent Taiwan. Demonstrators marshaled by the World United Formosans for Independence, headquartered...
...skyjackers were adamant. They held swords to the throats of the crew members while the jet took on 30,000 Ibs. of jet fuel. The skyjackers made only one concession: they released 22 women, children and an old man. Then the plane lifted off toward the Asian mainland...