Word: regionals
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Although they have been affected most severely in recent years, South and Southeast Asia are not alone. Sub-Saharan Africa has battled with HIV for years and still has the largest number of HIV cases as a region. Russia is now experiencing rapid growth in HIV infection, and Eastern Europe, Latin America and China are rapidly joining the ranks of countries severely affected by AIDS...
...acre Kovacevich vineyards--which make up slightly less than 1 percent of California's total grape acreage--are located just outside Bakers-field, Calif., in the heart of the state's agricultural region...
...have an easier time carrying out their mission: to search for and destroy Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. Bill Clinton seemed skeptical of the hasty, Russian-led diplomatic initiative that had persuaded Baghdad to back down: he continued to dispatch more planes and ships to the region in case Saddam once again interfered with the U.N.'s work...
First came the Asian Miracle, as booming Pacific Rim countries showed the rest of the world how to grow. Now comes the Asian Meltdown, as turmoil across the region shakes markets from Hong Kong to Wall Street. Last week it was Japan and South Korea that gave the world a jolt. No sooner had rumors of a possible South Korean collapse swept out of Seoul than the Japanese yen and the Tokyo stock market plunged to their lowest levels in two years. Across the Pacific, the ill winds from Asia blew the Dow Jones industrial average into a 157-point...
...week that Asia's problems, while not yet "serious threats" to the U.S. economy, could become so if they are not defused properly. To do that, Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers was to meet with Japanese officials in Tokyo this week to discuss an emergency bailout fund for the region...