Word: regionalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Have Northern Ireland?s firebombs really turned to tea and sandwiches? The Protestant Orange Order, blocked from their cherished Sunday march past Catholic homes by a fence of razor wire, a makeshift moat and a stubborn contingent of British troops, chose instead of violence a gambit that the region sees all too little of at this time of year. They backed down. "Keep it peaceful. I am warning you I will walk away from this if you don't keep it peaceful," the leader of Portadown's Orangemen, Harold Gracey, told his charges through a loudspeaker before ordering them away...
...will tell you that there is good reason to be skeptical of these "black people" from the South. First, they were responsible for a good deal of terrorist activity in response to the Chechnya war waged by Boris Yeltsin's government a few years ago (Chechnya is an autonomous region in the Caucasus). Also, many of them are members of the New Russian mafia, bringing violence to the streets of Moscow. Finally, Georgia is a military society, violent and capricious--its citizens are very hospitable if you are on their side; otherwise, they are dangerous...
...ocean has long been the lifeblood of theNew England economy, and all along the coastfishing, whaling and shipping ports testify to thecrucial role the sea has played in the history ofthe region...
...feel constrained to visit the closes ormost famous corners of the region. All of NewEngland drips with history, and breathtakingscenery isn't confined to what you can find in thepages of a guide book...
...week resettling refugees in devastated villages, is only two weeks away from bankruptcy ?- only about one third of its $400 million budget has been handed over. "If you can?t reintegrate people into a viable economy and society, then you?re bound to have another explosion in the region," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Dealing with that explosion will prove a lot more expensive than the development aid necessary to rebuild the region." The U.N. may have been left on the sidelines when NATO went to war, but now it's being asked to clean up the debris...