Word: regions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...satellites with whom the West has learned to live, Chinese Communists will in time grow softer, more reasonable. They may, although European Communism, superimposed on viable economies and workable political structures, is vastly different from the Asian variety. What is at stake in Asia is an undeveloped, politically shapeless region full of people who deserve better than the absence of chrysanthemums...
...world is moving toward a new era-the Pacific era," says Hawaii's Governor John A. Burns, and his state shows a lively new determination to make its mid-Pacific location the center of the region's rising tide of intellectual and scientific achievement...
There is plenty of business ahead for Wachovia. Next to the Far West, the Southeast has the nation's fastest-growing economy, carried forward on a fresh wave of industry that is sweeping aside plantations and piney woods. Agriculture, long predominant, now accounts for only 10% of the region's income, and Southern industry last year provided 75,000 new jobs, 25% of all the new factory jobs in the U.S. Personal income in the Southeast has climbed 25% in the past four years, last year rose 7.7% v. 6% for the entire...
...assets are now so considerable that Wachovia can meet practically any financing need. R. J. Reynolds officials used to shuttle to New York once a week on financing missions, but such trips are seldom necessary nowadays; they go to Wachovia. The bank's officials know their region well, and their formula for success is to stick to it. One bank officer recently had a crack at a multimillion-dollar piece of business in New York. He turned it down: too far north...
...term development programs, and it often takes a desperately long time to filter through government bureaucracies. To give ordinary Latin Americans a sense of progress now, the U.S. is backing a new program called "Partners of the Alliance." The idea is to match a U.S. state with a country, region, or large state in Latin America that shares some common characteristic and let the partners take it from there...