Whole platoons of soldiers in camouflage gear are told to run as they head toward the stricken area.

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This is now off the table but a special, low rate for Tohoku could encourage firms to rebuild in, or move to, the stricken area.

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As the government worked to repair dangerous structures, relief workers spent Wednesday looking for survivors and distributing supplies that were air-dropped into the stricken area.

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Paratroopers from the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division, also based at Fort Bragg, were on their way to Haiti, said Rajiv Shah, coordinator for U.S. assistance to the stricken area.

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Although Ethiopia and Eritrea are now engaged in a prolonged and sometimes savage war, the fighting, which at the moment consists mainly of border skirmishes, is far from the stricken area.

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Even in the stricken corporate and investment banking area, revenue rose by 7% in the second quarter, after a 1% decline in the first quarter.

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The governor of the region at the centre of Japan's nuclear crisis has criticised official handling of the evacuation of the area around the stricken Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

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The stricken birds were all found in the Ramsgate harbour area except for one red-throated diver, which was in Rye harbour.

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But the stricken reactors have yet to be stabilised and decommissioned, and the surrounding area decontaminated.

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The city has been trying to clean-up the area for years, building expensive lofts and upscale restaurants and venues next to the poverty-stricken streets.

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