Word: regionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bluff overlooking the river. The city is so resistant to political and economic reform that some Russians refer to it as a "communist preserve." It has been ruled since 1990, except for a brief interval, by its "Red Governor," Yuri Goryachev, who was once First Secretary of the region's Communist Party. He continues to operate in the peremptory style of a party boss from his colonnaded, four-story administration building on Lenin Square...
...should hedge against the worst by maintaining security in the region," Baker said...
...recent nights some 70% of the Casino Queen's patrons were white, many of them from across the river in Missouri. "Casino gambling is a shell game," explains Earl Grinols, a University of Illinois economics professor, "attracting dollars from one person's pocket to another and from one region to another...
...military reservists. Of the 500 or so officers and men who served in 1942 with one typical unit that Goldhagen details, Police Battalion 101, only 21 belonged to the Nazi elite force known as the SS. That year the battalion participated in a roundup of Jews from the Lublin region of Poland. Thousands were hunted down and slaughtered in execution orgies that left the police splattered with the blood and brains of their helpless victims...
...military on Okinawa, 2,937 are refusing to renew their leases, affecting about 10 percent of the land. The landowners have the support of local authorities, including Okinawa's governor, Masahide Ota. Ota claims the bases, which monopolize the best land on the island, have kept Okinawa the poorest region in Japan. Hashimoto has signed papers forcing Chibana to renew his lease, but until the renewal process is completed -- a task that could take weeks -- the U.S. military is technically trespassing on Chibana's land...