Word: regionalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...regional coalition that swept Laurent Kabila to power now appears badly divided over his future -- and that division may bring protracted turmoil in the long-suffering Congo. While Rwanda and Uganda are squarely behind the rebellion to oust Kabila, the guerrilla-turned-president appears to still have the active backing of Angola, Congo's southwestern neighbor and perhaps the region's leading military power...
...forecast can measure the volcanic threat created by the crisis in Asia. Economists generally blame the drop in stocks on slumping U.S. exports to the stricken region. The decline limited the growth of U.S. corporate earnings--a key determinant of stock prices--with industries from chemicals to aerospace reporting lower profits in the second quarter than in the same period a year ago. "Asia is unpredictable," says Allen Sinai, chief global economist for Primark Decision Economics. "I can't guarantee that there will be no recession in the U.S. next year because no one can be sure about Asia." Observes...
When your eye sees an object, the image is first processed by your retina, then by a lower brain area, and then by the cerebral cortex. The image first goes to the least specialized region of the cortex, known as V1. As information is subject to more processing, it goes to higher and more specialized areas of the visual cortex designated as V2, V3 and so forth...
English scientist S. A. Zeki thought he had identified the region of the brain used to recognize color in the 1970s. Working with macaque monkeys, Zeki found that there was one region of the brain, V4, responsible for color and another, V5, respon- sible for motion...
...time went on, Hadjikhani, explained, itbecame clear that "no one really knew where thecolor processor was situated in the brain." Datacast doubt on whether even the macaque colorprocessor was really located in region...