Word: regional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Those three have got to be amongst the best in the region at their positions," Kingston said...
Michael Lambert, a Ph.D candidate in Anthropology, will leave on October 31 for the West African country of Senegal, where he will investigate the effects of seasonal, educational and labor migration between rural villages and urban centers on the Boulouf-Diola people of the Basse-Casamance region...
Saying that the region needs a "full-time" state senator, Travaglini and his supporters have charged that LoPresti spends too much time in his job as a private attorney to be an effective representative, that he is inaccessible to the average voter and that he too often acts to please lobbyists at the expense of constituents...
LoPresti and his backers have also castigated Travaglini for supporting an increase in property taxes that were capped tightly by Proposition 2-1/2 in 1980. LoPresti's largest campaign advertisement blares that "Proposition 41/2," which Travaglini supports, would double taxes in the region...
...registered Republicans, mostly in affluent suburbs, and an equivalent base for Dukakis among the 4 million Democrats who voted for Walter Mondale in 1984, most of whom live in big cities. The election may be decided among Democrats in the suburbs, and in the Central Valley, the richest agricultural region in the U.S. (estimated value of its vegetables, nuts, grapes and cotton: $15 billion a year). The valley is home to 1.3 million voters, many of them transplants from the Southern states, who register 3 to 2 Democratic but voted heavily for Reagan in 1980 and 1984. Says Bill Lacy...