Word: mi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Enders' rhetorical questions pinpointed the reasons the Administration has taken such a firm position on El Salvador. That strife-torn country of 4.9 million people, roughly the size of Massachusetts, has the highest population density (593 per sq. mi.) and one of the lowest per capita incomes ($670 a year) in all of Latin America, and Washington is committed to support the Duarte government at a time when its survival is by no means cer tain. But the Administration fears that any slackening of U.S. support might lead to a major opportunity in Central America for Soviet-sponsored Cuba...
...most explosive area for growth companies today is south of San Francisco Bay in a 250-sq.-mi. area in Santa Clara County, where orchards of apricots, prunes and cherries were once a main source of income. Tiny semiconductors made with chips of silicon that were first manufactured there at the end of the '60s gave the region its nickname-"Silicon Valley." Growing up alongside the semiconductor companies in such towns as Sunnyvale, Los Altos and Cupertino are a host of new, high-tech industries. Says Michael Shields, a catalogue marketer in Palo Alto: "Living here is like riding...
...American Billionaire Daniel K. Ludwig paid $3 million to a group of Brazilian families for approximately 6,000 sq. mi. of dense rain forest in the country's remote Amazon region. He then set in motion a bold plan for developing the area to help meet anticipated world shortages of food, lumber and wood pulp for papermaking...
...these standards, the 196 sq. mi. Atlanta area emerges as the best all-round place to live in America. It is ranked No. 1 in transportation and high in such categories as health care, schools, cultural facilities and weather. Atlanta's major drawback, according to Places Rated, is its crime problem-it has a murder rate "that is twice the national average for metro areas." The Washington, D.C.Maryland-Virginia area scores second in all-round desirability, though it, too, suffers from a high crime rate. Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point, N.C., is the third most livable area, largely because...
...three-week-old hip fracture, suddenly emerged from his hospital bed early last week to appear in a wheelchair in the Knesset. There he brusquely announced that his government would make into law what Israel has long accomplished in fact: the takeover of the strategic Golan Heights, 444 sq. mi. of rocky terrain captured from Syria during the Six-Day War of 1967. Said Begin: "We are talking about our very lives and our future, and the welfare of this nation...