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Word: subsahara (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...longer a localized problem: auto and factory exhausts in North America and Europe seem to be changing the winds, pushing the monsoon rains off Asian cropland into the sea. Poor countries are destroying their share of their environment too: woodcutters are stripping India of its forests; herders in the Subsahara are helping the desert spread; careless farmers in Pakistan are washing away their best soil and its covering, parlaying their land into a dust bowl...

Author: By Nick Eberstadt, | Title: People, Not Figures | 1/17/1975 | See Source »

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