Word: peninsular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...toss whole shelves of papers and books, I can't help but wonder if anyone will miss them. Someday, a researcher may want to look at the working papers of a study on the incidence of poverty in children under five in Peninsular Malaysia. Maybe someone will need the book on the yarn-ball cottage industry in the rural Botswanan economy. Aren't these things important enough to keep around...
...original vegetation has disappeared; the monsoon forests of the Himalayan foothills that are being denuded by villagers in search of firewood, building materials and arable land; New Caledonia, 83% of whose plants occur nowhere else; the eastern slope of the Andes, as well as forests in East Africa, peninsular Malaysia, northeast Australia and along the Atlantic coast of Brazil...
...enhance its security on the ground, the kingdom has fashioned a force called Peninsular Shield with its five partners in the Gulf Cooperation Council. Together with Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia has assembled a 5,000-man force stationed in King Khalid Military City near the border with Kuwait. Built in typically opulent Saudi style, the complex can hold 70,000 troops. But its ability to withstand attack is questionable at best. Says one military analyst: "If the Iranians were not distracted by Iraq, the odds would be heavily in Iran's favor...
...British government had earlier taken over two passenger liners of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. (commonly known as the P. & O. line), the 16,907-ton Uganda and the 45,000-ton Canberra, and fitted them for military duty with astonishing alacrity. The Uganda, an "educational cruise liner" that normally carries 900 or more students around the Baltic and the Mediterranean, needed only modest modifications to be transformed into a floating 1,000-bed hospital. At a British navy dockyard in Gibraltar, 300 workers fitted the ship's stern with prefabricated steel helicopter pads. A smoking room...
...understandably an alluring proposition for the administration. The country's near-monopolies on the world's gold, diamonds and aluminum make trade with South Africa an essential resource value for the economies of the United States as well as other nations. Moreover, South Africa's domination of the peninsular tip of the continent effectively counters Soviet and Cuban presence in other parts of Southern Africa...