Word: southeasterly
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...their bloody game, moving closer to residential areas and placing critters of all kinds squarely in their sights. A few months ago, a mammoth white-tailed deer was found slaughtered--its antler rack carved out of its head--in the Pinery, a cushy bedroom community a few miles southeast of Denver. In Des Moines, Iowa, two men from Arkansas were convicted of illegally hunting trophy-size deer at the local airport. And poachers with crossbows built a tree stand in a public park in Redwood City, Calif., scattered bait and waited for black-tailed deer to mosey by. "Poachers show...
...people are businessmen or bankers," says Karen Keb Acevedo, editor-in-chief of Hobby Farms. "They start on weekends, wanting a better quality of life." The hot spots, she says, are in areas that are one to three hours outside of big cities on both coasts and throughout the Southeast...
...catastrophic," says prominent political commentator and columnist for the Posta newspaper Mehmet Ali Birand. It comes as Washington tries to persuade Turkey not to launch a military operation into north Iraq to pursue separatist Kurdish guerrillas who are based there and who have been staging increasingly violent attacks in southeast Turkey. The U.S. is opposed to any such move, fearful that it could disrupt Kurdish-controlled north Iraq, the only relatively stable area in the country...
...Each of these groups has experienced radically different immigration histories and trajectories. Chinese and Japanese have the longest history in America, with workers beginning to arrive around the turn of the twentieth century to work on America’s transcontinental railroads. Many Southeast Asians arrived post-1965 as refugees from Vietnam and other crisis countries; many Indians have arrived in recent years to work in information technology . Thus, we see a wide range across the spectrum of socioeconomic attainment and acculturation, the scope of which often becomes troublingly lost in categorizations of Asian America. In particular, success myths...
Rushing, who sponsored legislation in 1996 that banned the state government from doing business with companies tied to Myanmar, cheered Massachusetts’ role as one of the first U.S. states to support democracy in the southeast Asian country...