Word: south-western
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...other weapons to wreak havoc and ignite fear in neighboring suburbs. Mainly, they smashed shop windows and car windscreens, though a 23-year-old man was stabbed, while another was beaten up while taking out the garbage. Last week, young men set alight or otherwise attacked several churches in south-western Sydney. Arrests reached the dozens, but the violence abated as police numbers swelled in trouble spots and community leaders pleaded for calm. Still, with new text messages rallying support for fresh protests circulating on both sides, fears are high for more outbreaks of a strain of violence both foreign...
...organ failure; in Hangzhou, China. Pei Pei more than doubled her species' expected life span of about 15 years. Her death highlights the breeding difficulties of the endangered animals and comes on the heels of China's decision to create a $21.8 million panda-protection zone in the south-western region, where it hopes to stabilize the population...
...reduced to a stateof subsistance on tuna, which is her "only sourceof protein." Her neighbor sympatizes, explainingthat she "basically eat[s] hummus two times aday." All four says they prefer plain fare such asturkey cutlets and chicken breasts "when they'rewell cooked" to more exotic dishes like Beef Pieand South-western Lasagna...
...filled week, the Harvard men competed in a nonscoring dual meet against Rice, and the women ran in the Bayou Classic against squads from the South-western Conference...
...case concerns a 20-year-old dispute over access rights to water from the lower Colorado River which runs through five South-western states and several Indian reservations. The Court settled competing claims for the water in 1964 when it allocated rights based on the amount of arable land claimed by the states and tribes. But, due to some administrative snafu which has yet to be explained, government officials representing the tribes in the dispute underestimated by more than 20 percent the amount of reservation land for irrigation--thereby cheating the tribes of close to one-fourth of their water...