So I helped work with local churches in the region to -- and public school officials to get state funding for dropout prevention programs, and brought together African American and Latino leaders to help set up after-school programs -- because when we help keep kids off the street, when we give them a productive way to spend their time, then graduation rates go up.
Declining milk consumption is hitting the country's northern dairy-producing region, so a local liquor storeowner decided to turn some of the surplus milk into beer.
The comments have local politicians looking to state legislators for some sort of guarantee program, says Buck Landry, a managing director at Morgan Keegan, a Memphis investment bank that dominates the market for underwriting tax-exempt municipal and local bonds in the region.
Africa could act as a crucial base for Wal-Mart to target other local countries in the region.
Researchers will work with the Egyptian Medicinal Plant Conservation Project in St Katherine's, Sinai, which is working to preserve the biodiversity of the region through co-operation with local Bedouin.
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The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), the main rebel group fighting for political autonomy and local resource control in the oil-producing Niger Delta region, has called off its unilateral ceasefire, just weeks after announcing the move.
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The battles up until now have been very local-specific to the politics and nuances of each city or metropolitan region.
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The Colombian army has reinforced its presence in the region and - as often happens in Colombia - the local indigenous communities have been the most affected by the escalation of the conflict.
So great is the stigma attached to the disease that some four-fifths of victims in the region will not venture into their local clinic to get an HIV test.
Fighting continues in the region despite the JEM and local government signing a "goodwill and confidence-building" agreement earlier in February, according to the U.N.
No doubt he would have pined less during the late 20th Century, when many parts of the region became something of a hardscrabble industrial centre -- but as local manufacturing faded in the 1970s, rural charm re-emerged.
Shell's local subsidiary is the top foreign oil producer in the Niger Delta, an oil-rich region of mangroves and swamps about the size of Portugal.
Another local virtue which helps is the high rate of self-employment: 15% of the region's workforce is self-employed, compared with 9% in Scotland as a whole.
Meanwhile, Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific airline denied local reports that it was considering a cost-cutting plan to ground all flights as the region's carriers feel the effects of plummeting passenger numbers.
Modern-day Maya still live in the region, and stopping to chat about the local flora and fauna is always a welcome break.
For travellers seeking a local excursion, a 30-minute drive northward on paved roads leads to the Zagorohoria, a region of developed traditional mountain villages overlooking the awe-inspiring Vikos Gorge, said to be the world's deepest.
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If CapRock can grab just 5% of the local telephone and data market in the region it has targeted, says Thompson, it will have a billion-dollar business.
Although the region as a whole lags regulatory development, it will soon become priority subject matter for all local asset-management companies.
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Spanghero is a major employer in the south-western Castelnaudary region, which has been hit by high unemployment, and there has been a big local outcry about the impact if the firm were to close permanently, the BBC's Hugh Schofield, in Paris, reports.
The RESTORE Act, which was signed into law as part of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (Public Law 112-141), established a mechanism for providing funding to the Gulf region to restore ecosystems and rebuild local economies damaged by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
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