Word: regionality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Guatemala, the companies had some qualms. "The law is workable, but not liberal," said California Standard's special representative, Frank Plaza. Oilmen think that if oil is found in that country it will be in the sparsely settled jungle region in northern Petén. near the Mexican oilfields. Equipment will have to be flown or dragged in. Under the circumstances, Guatemalan requirements that each company drill at least one well every six months on each concession may be burdensome. Said Lionel Weidey, Jersey negotiator, "Guatemala's first barrel of export oil will cost $50 million...
...therefore ready to concede that East Germany shall become a demilitarized buffer zone inside the reunified German state. The U.S. further accepts Sir Anthony Eden's plan to offer the Russians security by keeping the conventional arms of West Europe in balance with the East so that each region may coexist without fear-each strong enough to defend itself against the other, but not to attack...
Over the years, the college has produced its share of doctors, lawyers, businessmen and college presidents. But half of its graduates still go back to their mountain communities, and of these, many become teachers. Thus the message of Berea returns continually to the mountains. To a whole region it has brought learning where no learning was before, but perhaps even more important, it has also brought its motto: "God hath made of one blood all nations...
...thousand eight hundred miles northwest of San Francisco, below the widening jaws of Bering Strait, stands St. Lawrence Island, a forlorn, treeless place of volcanic origin. This is the region where Alaska and the Soviet Union stare face to face at one another across three to 55 miles of icy waters, and it was there one lonely morning last week, just about the hour that Molotov addressed the U.N., that a U.S. Navy P2V-5 Neptune patrol plane flew on its routine radar patrol...
...through the solar system. Each cloud carries its own magnetic field, and when the clouds are numerous, they fill the solar system with magnetic obstacles in the path of the cosmic rays. The weak ones cannot make the grade. They curve off into space and never reach the inner region where the earth revolves...