Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they are uneasy about Soviet demonstrations of military strength off their coasts. Like their Norwegian allies, Danish pilots must scramble regularly to counter Soviet incursions into their country's airspace. NATO experts are alarmed by the dramatic rise in the flow of Warsaw Pact naval strength in the region and by the gradual westward shift of amphibious exercises. Soviet, Polish and East German destroyers cruise year round at the Baltic end of the Danish Straits; Soviet destroyers patrol the Skagerrak from May to October, in effect controlling traffic from the North Atlantic in and out of the Baltic. Last...
Stevens sped 330 miles north of San Francisco for a look and immediately fell in love with the region, its mist-shrouded forests and trout-filled streams. This would be an ideal spot to raise families, Stevens decided, and to care for the elderly poor, who "live worse than hogs many places." The price for Bridgeville was $450,000, with $150,000 down. Drawls Stevens: "It could have been $1,000. We didn't have the money...
...Pope. Although Benelli, 56, has a wide background as an administrator and diplomat (attaché to France, Brazil, Spain; nuncio to Senegal), he lacks the pastoral experience that he will gain as archbishop in his native Tuscany, as did Paul before he took the See of Milan. In a region long under Communist influence, Benelli will have to deal at firsthand with problems ranging from unemployment to abortion reform...
Each system is marked by its own peculiar inequalities. Those associated with race, sex and age can be counted simply as signs of persisting discrimination. Most regional differences are hangovers from historical divergencies in region al economies. Some disparities, however, simply defy rationalization. M.I.T. Economist Lester Thurow in his book Generating Inequality points to extreme variations in income among auto mechanics of roughly equal training and age - along with similarly extreme variations in the earnings of comparable physicians. Why such differences? Nobody has figured...
...fact, it did so-not in the U.S., although it soon got behind the idea, but in Europe, where the response was instant. That same night, Britain's Foreign Secretary Bevin began arranging the conferences in which Europe's nations would assess their needs as a region and go to the U.S. with a program in hand. As Marshall intended, all of Europe-Russia included-was invited to take part. But Russia, after the first conference, refused-and declared war on the plan as another example of U.S. efforts to enslave Europe. Finally 16 nations joined in developing...