Word: regionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yesterday's speech focused on globalization and on more specific issues affecting the Balkan region...
...want to help convert the kaleidoscope of races and minorities in the region into an instrument of solidarity, stability and multi-cultural cooperation," he said...
Globalization is key to the Balkan region, Papandreou said, as well as to Greek security in particular...
...Mayans had their "strange men from the stars," the citizens of Salem had their witches. I come from a community in New Jersey where a radio production of Orson Welles' "The War of the Worlds" 60 years ago convinced one million people in the New York-New Jersey region that aliens had landed in nearby Grover's Mill Pond. Some of the local farmers got so carried away by the tale that they shot up the town's water tower, believing it to be an invading ship...
...have been replaced by new distinctive characteristics. A Bostonian might not say "cah" any more - for car - but they will say potato puff for tater tot. Sprinkles will be jimmies. And they'll use terms like "triple-decker" and "grinder," which don't really appear outside of the region. Vaux says he could probably identify where a person is from, by asking under ten questions regarding such idiosyncracies in language. He explains that one of the main reasons the world's languages vary so widely involves the way in which children learn language. "They construct their language based on what...