Word: regionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MIDWEST: There was no school today in Lake Woebegon. In fact, with early morning wind chills of 70 below across much of Minnesota, Governor Arne Carlson closed all public schools in the state. A mass of arctic air has settled in over the region, bringing blizzard conditions that have shut most everything down. Gusting winds in the Dakotas have topped out over 50 mph, and conditions are nearly as bad in the plains and rolling hills of Iowa, where even the lightest dusting of snow is driven hard enough to create "whiteout" conditions. Even discounting wind chills -- which...
...organ donor-poor country. But the ultimate compensation -- justice -- eludes them still. A court has acquitted the two men charged in the shooting death, agreeing with the defense's argument that a recorded conversation allegedly identifying Francesco Mesiano and Michele Iannello as the murderers was too chock full of regional dialect to serve as intelligible evidence. Police charged that the pair had mistaken the Greens' rental car for a robbery target, forced the car off the road and then fired into the vehicle, hitting young Nicholas in the brain. In the end, despite evidence linking Iannello...
Unfortunately, the latest crisis in the region seems to be less familiar and less newsworthy. The Zairian government, which sympathizes with the Tutsis, has attacked Hutu refugee camps within its borders, spurring a massive flight of sickly Hutus into the countryside. More than 500,000 refugees have walked hundreds of miles, attempting to return to Rwanda, already the most over-crowded country in Africa. And as the conflict between the Hutus and the Tutsis overflows into Zaire, the refugees' situation is rapidly deteriorating. Last month, U.N. officials touring the area visited a Zairian refugee camp with 400,000 inhabitants...
...walk around Cambridge, an atrocity taking place across the globe seems entirely obscure and remote. There are very few Hutu representatives on campus. Nor are there many Tutsis either, for that matter. As a result, the situation of the projected 1.1 million displaced refugees in this region remains Boston Globe front page news--at best. We read the story, sigh, and head straight for the sports, weather, living arts or business sections. After all, this news is important; it will inform us whether to wear a sweater to section, what time to attend a movie or how well our stocks...
...still in effect for 11 rivers statewide. Oregon is about the only state where matters appear to be improving. But I-5 is still closed in southern Oregon and 40,000 customers remain without long-distance telephone service. Rains are supposed to begin slowing throughout much of the region. But the Cascade and Sierra mountain ranges can expect up to another 10 inches of snow before the storm subsides...