California and other Pacific coastal states have long preferred foreign brands (albeit now mostly made in America).

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California and other Pacific coastal states have long preferred foreign brands (albeit now mostly manufactured in America).

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He faces stiff opposition, especially from the business community, centred in the major Pacific coastal city of Guayaquil.

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He is thought to be hiding in the Mexican Pacific coastal state of Sinaloa or the Sierra Madre mountains in the neighboring state of Durango.

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This Southern California city has all the Pacific Coast perks: coastal living, sparkling weather, temperate climate, ocean views and golden sandy beaches.

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According to which you believe, great earthquakes will cause California to fall into the Pacific, tidal waves will devastate coastal cities, or the earth's crust will shift.

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King Pacific Lodge, a floating luxury lodge in a remote coastal section of British Columbia, Canada, received a Global Vision Award for establishing protection for the 21 million-acre Great Bear Rainforest, which surrounds the property.

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Most attention tends to focus on inhabitants of low-lying islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans the Maldives, Tuvalu and Kiribati, say and coastal plains, notably in Bangladesh.

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Former NFL player Michael Hamilton decided to build a new Standard Pacific home in San Diego after seeing a roughly half-acre lot with views of coastal sage shrub and other native plants near 1, 600 acres of preserved open space.

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