Word: regionalized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Japan updated and approved a new Security Pact that effectively replaced the previous 1978 guidelines aimed at Cold War era issues. This new agreement ensures that Japan will provide military support for American forces in an Asian crisis; this is especially important given the current volatility of the region. Under the terms of this pact, military support could come in the form of U.S. access to Japanese bases, Japanese minesweeping of sea lanes and joint U.S.-Japan evacuation of civilians in the event of a war. In the case of North Korea attacking South Korea, or China doing the same...
...means that no Japanese soldier has killed anyone since the war ended; it means that Japan cannot enter have nuclear weapons since such offensive action is forbidden under Article 9 of the Peace Constitution. It means that Japan is an effective peace-keeping nation in the midst of a region of the world recently in conflict. And it means that America should be doing everything it can to preserve this stability, rather than destroying it through a revised U.S.-Japan Security Agreement...
...trashing of the Miami Herald as a "shell of its former self" is a chomp on the ear. Sure, it's a different newspaper than it was in 1984. Yet since then the Herald has nine times picked off a Pulitzer, a prize supposedly indicative of quality. Probably no region in America sees more demographic upheaval than Miami does, and the Herald addresses it up-front and openly. That means taking risks. Some work: El Nuevo Herald, our Spanish-language counterpart, now has a daily print run of 110,000. Some don't work: we now staff Managua rather than...
...True, the novel's pages bleed together, but Bleeding London is a wounded creature. A writer once said of Ezra Pound, "he is a great poet who has never written a great poem." In the world of lyric prose, Nicholson neither leads nor follows. Rather, he occupies that awkward region in between--usually above reproach, seldom awe-inspiring--where many decent writers languish in anonymity. Bleeding London is, well, bloody awful...
Baseball's premier event in 1997 will head to South Florida, a region which quickly and quietly slips from summer into spring at some point between November and February. But the folks in the Miami area are far from baseball novices, and they will be rockin' on Saturday to celebrate the accomplishments of a team that has shocked the Major Leagues...