Word: regionalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...farm," says Judi Mayer of the Montello Area Chamber of Commerce. But welfare professionals say a key factor is the attitude of the local welfare office. Marquette's social services department has, in director Kenneth Ramminger's words, "an expectation of work." His staff knows the employers in the region, and inquiries about welfare turn quickly into referrals to local businesses that may be hiring, like Brakebush Brothers, a chicken-processing plant...
After the charge was filed by the graduate students, the issue of unfair labor practices was investigated by the Hartford region of the NLRB...
...mean the Administration would later approve their sale. But in the past, sales licenses have almost always followed if an American company won a bid overseas. "We have a different situation now than we did in the late '70s," says White House spokesman David Johnson. "We've got a region that has undergone a substantial transformation." Yet some things, like the lure of expensive new weapons, never seem to change...
Some change in Antarctic climate is already noticeable. It seems to be snowing more often at the South Pole, an area remote from any obvious sources of additional moisture. In the continent's Dry Valleys region, the lake ice seems to be thinning. It actually rained briefly at the American base in McMurdo Sound this year. The Wordie Ice Shelf on the Antarctic peninsula has all but collapsed, signaling a retreat of the northern limit of permanent ice on the continent. And in the 1970s a portion of the sea-ice apron as big as California disappeared for three years...
...African, I found your story on Zaire [WORLD, March 24] to be insightful and revealing. A political and economic revolution is going on in the Great Lakes region of Central Africa, thanks to the brilliance and iron will of Uganda's Yoweri Museveni. He has turned Uganda around. He realizes that similar changes must go on in the other countries of the region if true economic growth is to occur. In the process, Museveni and his proteges have begun to challenge the paradigms that have existed for more than a century, principally the French claim to an African sphere...