Word: regionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...obey. Behind the scenes, the showdown in New Hampshire is taking a toll on Dole's overall strategy. The majority leader had planned to spend about $1 million on advertising in the state. But Forbes' deep pockets have, according to an official, pushed the Dole media budget in the region to $2.8 million--money that has to come from elsewhere: the South, the Midwest or California...
...Last week, in a formal speech at the Great Hall of the People, Premier Li Peng lectured the citizens of the island: No matter how they might choose their President, "they cannot change the fact that Taiwan is part of China and its leaders are only leaders of a region in China." Beijing prefers a peaceful reunification, said Li, the man generally credited with sending tanks against democracy demonstrators in 1989, "but we have not forsworn the use of force." Foreign Ministry spokesman Chen Jian even suggested a timetable of sorts, saying that after China reclaims Hong Kong...
...bound by legislation passed in 1979, the Taiwan Relations Act, to view an attack on the island as "a threat to the peace and security" of the region and "of grave concern to the U.S." The Clinton Administration has not spelled out what it would do in case the Chinese civil war turned hot again. Says a China specialist at the State Department: "The folks in Taiwan who might do something rash should not assume we would come to their aid, and the folks in Beijing who might do something militarily should not assume we won't." Such lack...
According to Fitzsimmons, 24.5 percent of the applicants came from the Mid-Atlantic region, 17.6 percent from the Pacific, 15.3 percent from the South, 14.8 percent from New England, 10.7 percent from foreign countries and 2.1 percent from Canada and the territories...
...continued with basketball although she recognized upsetting differences between the junior high and Lake Region High School programs...