Word: regionalization
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...primary transatlantic hub, pulling flights from Milan's Malpensa airport. A decade ago, the construction of the airport 30 miles (50 km) northwest of Milan was seen as a great victory for powerful northern politicians. Now both the Milanese mayor Letizia Moratti and the governor of the Lombardy region Roberto Formigoni - both rising stars of the center-right, which is the opposition in the capital - have vowed to fight the plan. Alitalia officials will also be bracing for the reaction from the unions, who in the past have launched repeated strikes at any threat of job cuts or reductions...
...HSBC financial group. Since the U.N. already has a framework for addressing the issue, he argues, APEC's impact will be negligible. Meanwhile, "they have missed the opportunity to do something serious on the issue of trade, by advancing the concept of an overarching free-trade agreement for the region...
...Increasing the tilt toward a regional FTA is the malaise in the World Trade Organization, where the Doha Round of talks, aimed at getting rich economies to lower barriers to poor nations' exports, has been in gridlock for years. The APEC leaders are expected to issue a statement urging a breakthrough, but they did that last year and the year before that to no avail. And if the Doha talks fail, says economist Edwards, "it becomes all the more important that this region have the widest free-trade agreement possible." Downer, however, sees that as a very remote prospect...
...type of fence, however, tells a better story about the changing American West than barbed wire, a tool as key to the region's settlement as the buffalo rifle, the railroad, the telegraph and the windmill...
...advised me to report as I had for years--honestly but with caution--and talked of the concerns swirling in the halls of government. "The Western media are distorting the image of Iran," he said. "Why does no one write about how Iranian women are ahead of the whole region in education, in public life?" I agreed with him but said it was difficult to communicate such gains in the midst of widening human-rights violations...