Word: regionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rebels drove Serb process servers and their police escorts out of the village. When heavily armed Serb reinforcements returned next day, angry rebels ambushed them outside town and drove them back. Serb authorities have not dared return since, and the shadowy Kosovo Liberation Army (K.L.A.) has rallied to the region and patrols its rural roads by night. Intentionally or not, the area around Vojnik has been made Kosovo's first "no-go zone" for the Serb regime and the center of a growing war of independence from Serbia...
Late last night, area meteorologists were still refining their forecasts for the Boston area. Minor shifts in the track of a strong low pressure system will decide whether the region receives a heavy dose of snow, as was predicted earlier, or of mostly freezing rain and sleet...
...crisis in Japan. U.S. banks would get swept into the mess not just because of their loan exposure to Asia but also as a result of the trillions of dollars in interest-rate and currency swaps, hedging contracts and other derivative deals that link American financial institutions to the region. For strategic as well as political reasons, Rubin & Co. believed, the Asian flu had to be contained before it spread to other markets, including Japan...
...world waits for the region to stabilize, global investors continue their search for a safe place to park assets. A favorite haven: American Treasury securities. So popular are long-term U.S. issues that although their yields have dropped nearly a full percentage point over the past 12 months, they still attract plenty of buyers. Now that's popularity...
...where we're from," said survivor Diego Perez, 32, blinking back tears as he recalled how his father, brother and aunt were killed in cold blood in front of him that day. "But it's hard to feel safe here." In fact, even as government soldiers blanketed the region near Acteal, some 5,000 frightened peasants clogged the Chiapas roads seeking refuge in larger towns...