Word: regions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...under relentless attack from environmental activists worldwide. They charge that its policies are not only resulting in the wanton destruction of Brazil's forest, its wildlife and its native peoples, but are also endangering the world environment. Scientists say the fires set by ranchers and homesteaders in the Amazon region are spewing into the atmosphere 7% of the carbon dioxide responsible for the global warming process known as the greenhouse effect...
...this region called the North Country, they say the hockey is a little bolder, a little faster, a little better...
...that fair? Let's suppose that I, having only been at Harvard a few days, walked into a common room of one of these university's grand houses and overheard some male students referring to a woman as a girl, or making racial slurs, or even claiming that another region of the country has no culture. (I think we can all agree that this is not an inconceivable scenario.) Let's further suppose that I already knew some things about Harvard--say, that this University still has money invested in South Africa, while Duke divested back in 1986. Would...
...been back since 1982, and was eager to see how life had changed in this region on the edge of the Russian steppe. Now, looking at the streets of Tambov, I wondered what was new in this city of 300,000. They were building new houses, stadiums and schools? They had built them before. The slogans were new on the posters? Even in the past they updated them from time to time...
...produce meat here in the Tambov region, and we send it to Moscow to be made into sausage. Then we have to go to Moscow to buy sausage made from Tambov meat...