Word: zoning
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...Dartmouth seemed to get some more energy behind them,” Richter said. “We got a few penalties, which allowed them to set up in our zone. They had a lot of shots, but our defense was good, making sure I could save all the shots...
...veins of resources: it owns a controlling interest in the massive gold and copper mine at Saindak and has steered the building of a $1 billion blue water port at Gwadar, mostly using Chinese labor. The growing hub of Gwadar, which Islamabad has slated to become a special economic zone, is not only a focal point of Chinese strategic interests in southwest Asia, but also a source of contention for the Baluch, who have been almost entirely frozen out of its development and, as in elsewhere in the province, kept at arm's length by ethnic Punjabis and Sindhis arriving...
Over the years, governments have adopted, altered or ignored Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) as they saw fit. The U.S. didn't sign its time zones into law until 1918. China used to have five time zones, but in 1949 communist leaders reorganized the country under one zone. Part of western Australia made up its time zone halfway between two official ones. And then there's the state of Indiana, which under the U.S.'s 1918 law fell into the Central Time Zone category. But in 1961, the Interstate Commerce Commission changed the time-zone lines so that half of Indiana...
Americans observed daylight saving, but they didn't like it. In 1972, after much protest, President Richard Nixon signed the so-called Indiana amendment, which allowed states straddling time-zone boundaries to exempt only part of themselves from daylight saving. The result left part of Indiana in Central Time, part in Eastern Time, part observing daylight saving and part observing standard time throughout the year. Indiana resumed observing daylight saving on a statewide basis in 2006, but it still has counties in both Eastern and Central Time...
...McGill player was going for a long pass, but Farni read the play and intercepted the puck in the neutral zone, scoring on a breakaway...