Word: regionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final season before heading off to the pro tour, Tom Blake could not be forgotten by the Regional Committee. The two-time All-American and last year's EITA Player of the Year was once again honored as the best player in the region. In addition, Blake was selected as the regional nominee for the ITA John Van Nostrand Memorial Award. Seven other candidates from around the country received the same accolades. The national winner will be announced during the latter stages of the NCAA tournament...
...five other teams in the region--which include Virginia Tech, host Princeton and Miami--Harvard has faced four of them this season and posted a 5-0 record in those matches...
Such is the state of relations, generally, between religious and secular Israelis these days. As Israel celebrates its 50th anniversary, its citizens identify the rift over religion as their No. 1 problem. With the country well established and peace in the region a growing reality, Israelis are fighting among themselves as never before. "For 50 years, we had an external enemy who obliged us to lower the tenor of our internal tensions," says author A.B. Yehoshua. "But the external enemy doesn't unite us anymore...
...estimated 1.8 million Kosovars responded to Belgrade's iron hand largely with passive resistance. Then a small militant group calling itself the Kosovo Liberation Army started killing Serb policemen and Kosovar collaborators. By the end of last year, they had carved out several no-go zones in the central region, pushing the Serb police into hasty retreat. Starting Feb. 28, Milosevic ordered a lethal sweep against the strongest of the rebel zones, killing more than 80 Kosovars, including 30 women, children and elderly...
...finance. By 2010 hundreds of millions of Chinese will be wired to the Golden Bridge financial network, carrying Golden Card smart cards and automatically forking over a chunk of their salaries to the government via a microchip-enabled Golden Tax. Says Bryan Nelson, Microsoft's commanding general in the region: "China is going to be the ultimate proof of all that the Internet can do. And the amazing thing is, the Chinese seem to understand that. Better than some people in the West, actually...