Word: regional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Resolution 242, adopted after the 1967 war, implicitly recognizes Israel by referring to the right of all states in the region to live in peace within secure and recognized borders. It also calls for Israeli withdrawal from occupied lands...
Along with Yale and Dartmouth, Georgetown, the top Region Two finisher, qualified for the national finals. Three-hundred-and-fifty runners from 44 teams participated in the 3.1-mile race...
...Reagan Administration, which had tacitly supported Peres and his plans for Arab-Israeli negotiations, kept its dismay to itself and promised to work with whatever government emerges. Reagan's successor will find it all the harder to nudge the region toward peace talks. American Jews were concerned that a right-wing Israel, markedly more religious and militantly nationalistic than before, would alienate or at least upset U.S. supporters already dismayed by Israel's handling of the intifadeh...
...story, the tale of taste, a couple who are in an erotic "phase of rarefaction" are vacationing in Mexico. They find a new mode of communication through their experience of the fiery local cuisine. Its spiciness, they find, derives from the seasoning used by the early Indians of the region for human sacrifices. After this revelation, the couple's own dining becomes a kind of sacrament, the food of each becoming the substance of the other...
...action comes none too soon. For the past several hundred years Venice has been sinking -- 9 in. this century alone -- because of geological shifts in the region and the draining of freshwater wells in and around the city. Although experts believe the sinking has stopped, the city faces an equally threatening development: the slow rise of the Adriatic, largely as a result of a global warming trend that is causing the world's oceans and seas to expand gradually...