Word: regionalize
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...mere generation ago, the people of the Arabian shore of the Persian Gulf led a life little different from the one their ancestors had led since the advent of Islam. During migrations in search of water and trading locations, mainly from the Najd region of what is today the central part of Saudi Arabia, a group of tribes called the Bani Utub settled the town of Kuwait (in simple translation, Little Fort) in the early 1700s. With trade the major source of income, the tribes established a unique political system. Of the three most , influential families, the Khalifas...
...permits required for public rallies were rarely granted; demonstrators were dispersed by force; political parties were banned. When the parliament was suspended in 1986, the press was censored as well, a particularly depressing action because Kuwait's papers, books and magazines had long been among the freest in the region. Whether it was accurate news from Lebanon or the Arabic version of Sesame Street, it could well have originated in Kuwait...
...trickle has not escaped the Census Bureau. Last January it reported that for the first time in more than a century the proportion of black Americans living in the South had taken an upward climb: 56% lived in the region in 1988, up from 52% in 1980. More important than the number of blacks, however, is the implicit indictment of the North and the redemption of the South contained in this black to-and-fro. "What's unusual is that they were immigrants to another country in a real sense, and ordinarily, immigrants don't go back...
...Columbia, S.C., after 29 years in Los Angeles, working mostly as shipping supervisor for the Automobile Club of Southern California. But in a deeper sense, part of the South's appeal to its black emigrants is the strange intimacy that has always existed between the races in the region's rural culture. Their homecoming is partly an illumination of the old saying that in the South you can get close as long as you don't get too high, and in the North, you can get high as long as you don't get too close. "Here they recognize that...
...hard job then, it is all but impossible now. Two weeks ago, CBS confirmed that it was shutting down its Chicago bureau, leaving a single reporter to handle the entire region from an office at the network's local affiliate. ABC is cutting its Chicago office from eight people to two by the end of the year. Only NBC's bureau is remaining intact -- with one correspondent, down from five...