Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Within hours, motorized columns carrying 16,000 regular troops were rolling northward along three roads toward Algiers. Then they ran into roadblocks set up by defiant troops of Wilaya 4, the military district that includes Algiers and the surrounding region. As their trucks squealed to a halt, Ben Bella's troops embraced their foes at the barricades and sat down to drink coffee together. "Dear brother," one of Ben Bella's officers would say, "we have orders from the Politburo to advance on Algiers." A wilaya commander would reply: "Dear brother, we are sorry but we have orders...
...fact off by lumping Southern Democrats with Republicans as members of the irresponsible opposition. This ignores a couple of the political facts of life: 1) a lot of non-Southern Democrats have voted against Kennedy programs, and 2) the South remains the stronghold of the Democratic Party; without that region Kennedy would never have become President...
...Prevent Hail. During the warm months, the Appalachian fruit region is occasionally pelted by hailstones as big as golf balls, which smash and bruise the ripening apples and peaches. In 1957, after a year of especially heavy hail damage, fruitgrowers in the four states got together in an organization called the Blue Ridge Weather Modification Association. They hired a cloud-seeding firm to combat the costly hail...
...nation's economy is in fact a mixture that varies not only by industry but by region (see map). A business slowdown has been most evident in the long-established industrial regions, notably the great northern tier from New York to Wisconsin, where half the nation's budget for plant and equipment is spent...
...there appear any bright prospects for the future. The Mamelukes [the ruling class of Egypt] had made the country almost as inaccessible to travelers as Tibet is today, the Sudan was virtually unknown, and Ethiopia, locked away in its remote mountains, was still the land of Prester John, a region of horrendous legends and medieval myths...