Word: regions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AVENGERS (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).*The last adventure for Mrs. Emma Peel (Diana Rigg), who discovers that her husband, long presumed dead, has been found in the Amazon region. In to replace her as John Steed's (Patrick McNee) partner: Tara King (Linda Thorson), who will take a more curvaceous approach to sleuthing than did Karate Expert Emma...
...Gondwana region of India...
...over from the postcolonial politicians in many South Asian nations have had much success in changing these attitudes. The result is that the best-laid, often Western-tutored, economic plans consistently go awry. Whether military or civilian, nominally capitalist or self-styled socialist, "the various political systems in the region are strikingly similar in their inability or unwillingness to institute fundamental reforms and enforce social discipline. They are all in this sense 'soft states.' " And, adds Myrdal: "There is little hope in South Asia for rapid development without greater social discipline...
Until recently, when oil began spurting out of Abu Dhabi and Dubai, the sheiks needed little protection. Who, after all, wanted a flat, trackless desert coated with gravel and hospitable only to a few grazing oryxes, hares and gazelles? Yet the whole Gulf region is estimated to have some 60% of the free world's proven oil reserves, and the Trucial States are sitting on a good deal of it. After only six years of pumping oil, Abu Dhabi has the world's highest per-capita income...
...visited the hospital at Quang Ngai and went through it in some detail with a doctor working with the Quaker unit. There was a standard medical ward which perhaps had an increase in the standard diseases of the area, malaria, diphtheria, cholera, plague had broken out in the region. And the other things that you are wont to find in this part of the world. But when we went beyond the medical ward into the severe injury ward, you saw the full horror of the war itself...