Word: regionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Born in Shanghai in 1948, Perry said that while her birthplace probably contributed to her interest in the region, it was her undergraduate experience that was formative...
...acumen could not maneuver the U.S. out of intemperate relations; in Walnut Creek, Calif. From the Moscow embassy, Durbrow witnessed the beginning of the cold war in the late 1940s. War seemed to shadow him; in 1957 he became ambassador to South Vietnam just in time to watch that region move toward conflagration...
...southwestern corner of the state. As he has for the past decade, in Journeys into American Indian Territory programs, Vetter will "bombard" participants with insightful interactions so they will learn about the culture of the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Wichita, Caddo, Delaware, Cheyenne and Arapaho people of this region. (This program costs $895 for adults and half as much for children...
Nearly 100 U.S. corporations--so-called maquiladoras--opened factories in Matamoros to take advantage of Mexico's cheap labor and special U.S. tax breaks. It appears they also took advantage of Mexico's lax environmental enforcement to contaminate the region with hazardous waste. Among the defendants in the case...
...decades, scientists have recognized a distinctive belt of eight Southern states where the incidence of stroke is significantly higher than the national average. But a recent study revealed that in one portion of that region, in an area that parallels the Atlantic seaboard, strokes are even more prevalent. Dubbed the Buckle (of the Stroke Belt, that is), these 153 counties in Georgia and the Carolinas have lower average incomes than the rest of the Belt. Scientists thought there must be a relationship between poverty and stroke mortality, but the study shows that only 5% to 16% of the Belt...