Word: regionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Canfield, who owned land nearby, sold his property to the Wyoming, Idaho & Montana Railroad. The railroad wanted to name the new outpost for Canfield, but he declined, mischievously suggesting Harvard as a replacement, according to Keith Petersen, an editor at the Washington State University Press who has studied the region...
While many Southerners call themselves "yellow dog Democrats," meaning they would sooner vote for a yellow dog than any Republican, the region has gradually swung behind the GOP in presidential elections...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Hours after an Iraqi missile was fired at a U.S. fighter, the Pentagon upped the ante by sending F-117 stealth fighters and two B-52s to the Persian Gulf region in response to the latest provocation by Saddam Hussein. "The Pentagon is ready to send in aircraft with pilots, which can obviously be more dangerous than firing cruise missiles," TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson says. "But that is the only way to get rid of the Iraqi surface-to-air defense missiles." The move came in response to an Iraqi missile launched...
...solar wind races toward the edges of the solar system, it smashes into the magnetosphere, a long, teardrop-shaped region of space that marks the boundaries of the earth's magnetic field. The magnetosphere protects the earth by deflecting most of the solar wind around the planet the way a windshield deflects air around a car. Still, untold trillions of charged particles manage to leak through. Some are trapped to form the Van Allen radiation belts that surround the earth. Others spiral down the magnetic field lines that project from the North and South poles. Energy unleashed by this disturbance...
...point--he tells his daughter he knows someone who "was involved in Dallas"--and who now, at 74, is on the verge of big payday, delivering and selling a planeload of unspecified merchandise somewhere in the Caribbean. It is 1984, after all, and the region is abuzz with preparations for what would later be described as the Iran-contra affair. Unfortunately, her father falls ill, and Elena agrees to accompany the plane on its mission and pick up the million dollars he expects to receive...