Word: pacificism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Also, aggressive small lenders are wooing dis gruntled customers away from the sometimes clumsy giants. California's Glendale Federal has taken aim at Bank of America, which merged with Security Pacific in 1992 in a $4 billion deal. Draped over the en trance of Glendale Federal branches are banners with...
That's the textbook version at least. In practice, nature often kills hurricanes before they are born. For example, the intermittent warm-water current in the Pacific Ocean known as El Ni¤o generates westerly winds that reach halfway around the globe to disrupt cloud formations that might otherwise form...
OTHER FACTORS-VARIATIONS IN ocean temperatures and in high-altitude prevailing winds-are also involved. Nobody can say with any certainty why these me teorological influences come and go as they do. Gray favors a mechanism known as the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt, a vast, and so far poorly understood...
South and East of Yakutia, jutting 750 miles into the Pacific Ocean, lies the Kamchatka peninsula, the only major piece of the former Soviet Union to survive decades of communism relatively unscathed. A peninsula larger than North and South Korea combined, Kamchatka has stunning treasures to preserve: active volcanoes, wild...
Kamchatka, however, must contend with the same pressures as the rest of Russia. Sinchenko admits that the government is under great pressure to replace the subsidies and remittances that ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Ecologists are worried that the local government will finance those expenses on the...