Word: region
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What I had originally envisioned as an organization devoted to championing the democratic vision of some of the region's leaders (President Oscar Arias Sanchez of Costa Rica and former Argentine President Raul Alfonsin), was in fact one devoted to spreading the propaganda of its Marxist ideologues, Fidel Castro and Daniel Ortega...
Seattle in fact has achieved a stunning comeback from the "Boeing bust" of the early 1970s, when the aircraft manufacturer slashed its work force from 105,000 to 38,000. Since the mid-1980s, the region's industries have diversified into computers, new fisheries and Pacific Rim trade. Unemployment has fallen to a 20-year low of 4.5%. Now business is so brisk at Boeing that not even a record-high work force of 110,000 is enough to meet production schedules. Last month 57,000 machinists went on strike at four Boeing plants, demanding a larger share of company...
...most destructive storm in U.S. history. In South Carolina alone, it killed 18 people, severely damaged or obliterated more than 36,000 homes, wiped out crops valued at $50 million and knocked down trees worth $1 billion. All told, property damage in the 24-county region that bore the brunt of Hugo's wrath could total $5 billion...
...Jeffrey Sachs, the glaring gap between rich and poor in Latin America is a major cause of the debt crisis that has racked the region. The boyish Harvard & economist, an adviser to debt-ridden countries from Bolivia to Poland, blames wealthy Latin elites for dodging taxes and arranging self-serving subsidies that have "sucked the blood" from many governments, forcing them to borrow heavily...
...year's dramatic political changes elsewhere in the bloc. The obdurate rulers in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Rumania refuse to imitate their reformist neighbors but can't help looking anxiously over their shoulder. "They are all worried about the fallout from change elsewhere," said a Western diplomat in the region. A Bulgarian proverb captures the fears: "When the Gypsy's bear is dancing in your neighbor's yard, you know it will soon come to yours...