Word: regionality
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...agreed the next farm bill would wean farmers off subsidies but only after they received seven years of guaranteed transitional payments--even when prices were high. Farmers also received more generous crop-insurance subsidies so that Congress would no longer need to send them disaster checks every time their region had nasty weather. But when prices collapsed again in 1998, Congress approved the most generous disaster packages in history...
With its careful mix of aspirational glamour and boundary-pushing, the new channel is crucial to MTV's global expansion: in its target markets in the region, 65% of the population is under 25. Connecting with those young people means more than just promoting pop culture, says Abdullatif al-Sayegh, 35, the CEO of Arab Media Group (AMG), which holds the MTV license in the region. "We are not introducing a music channel," he insists. "We are introducing a platform for youth, where we can bring up a lot of issues and solve them...
...over who got to pass out snacks that day. I thought my experience in the impoverished areas of Boston had prepared me well for my new teaching post at Central High School. My students in Teach for America’s “Mississippi Delta” placement region are, in fact, similar to those in Dorchester in many ways. They, too, need a lot of help on homework, and they also fight, even though they’ve graduated from brownie squares to love triangles...
...protect Darfur refugees, and could be exploiting the Zoe's Ark case to whip up anti-foreigner sentiment. Chadian leaders deny those accusations, and say the E.U. troop deployment will proceed as planned. Regardless, other humanitarian aid groups attending to the Darfur crisis says the atmosphere in the region has turned suspicious and hostile since the Zoe's Ark affair exploded...
...militants' tactics in Diwaniyah would be familiar to the British. After months of sustained mortar and rocket attacks on their Basra camps, the British essentially declared victory and slipped out of Basra in the night, pulling back to the regional airport and washing their hands of the Shi'ite infighting that has made Iraq's second largest city ungovernable. British Defense Secretary Des Browne announced Wednesday in Baghdad that the British would hand the Basra region over to Iraqi security forces by mid-December, leaving the city to Iraqi forces that are deeply infiltrated by three warring Shi'ite factions...