Word: regionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today the bureaucracies that used to deliver progress only contribute sclerosis. Critics roundly blamed bureaucratic ineptitude for the sluggish rescue response to last year's Kobe earthquake, which took more than 6,300 lives in the region. The same complaints were repeated last summer, when a food-poisoning epidemic in Sakai City, near Osaka, spread to affect nearly 5,800 people throughout the country. "If the politicians stick to the status quo, then we will lose our position in the world market," says Isamu Miyazaki, a senior adviser at the Daiwa Institute of Research. Competition from China and other fast...
...being bought up by large chains. Since 1992 more than 300 dailies have changed hands, the overwhelming majority passing from one chain to another. The 15 largest groups now control more than half the country's daily newspaper circulation, and the trend is for all the papers in a region owned by one group to share photographs and reporters...
Russ and Bo are popular with prisoners around the region, and Barr may even have heard some calls they made to the show, speaking angrily about what should be done to McDougall. "We got calls from inmates that night," Rollins said. "They were describing what happens to child molesters in prison. They talked of a blanket party, where you throw a blanket over him and everybody beats the hell out of him. A certain prisoner said that should happen to [McDougall], and we were like, 'No, no, no. On to the next call...
...Kurds only eight years earlier, should not be surprising to anyone who remembers that Iraq asked Iran for help during the Gulf War only a few years after the long and bloody struggle between their two countries. Meanwhile Washington, $5 trillion-plus in debt, deploys to the region a military force, deemed necessary to thwart Saddam's ambitions, that costs about $40 billion a year. O. VOLLEY Estepona, Spain
...region Weil cited was an indigenous, isolated village in the recesses of the Amazon jungle. The residents prepare fresh cocoa leaves every day, picking and grinding the leaves from which cocaine is derived...