Coast
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The US military operates 66 bases for UAVs on American soil, with 22 more planned across the country and more being built in Africa and off the
coast
of Australia.
More gas and large oil fields lie off the Greek
coast
in the Aegean and Ionian Seas, enough to transform the finances of Greece and the entire region.
The Gulf
coast
of Mexico and Central American countries has repeatedly experienced such tragedies, with poor communities the most vulnerable and the least able to cope.
Hurricane Sandy and Climate ChangeATHENS, GEORGIA – In the waning weeks of the North American hurricane season – a time when a superstorm is not expected to cause widespread damage to the eastern
coast
of the United States – Hurricane Sandy is a grim reminder of the menace of extreme weather events.
Sea surface temperatures along the US northeast
coast
are about five degrees Fahrenheit above average, which helped to intensify Sandy just prior to landfall.
Moreover, sea levels along the US northeast
coast
are rising up to four times faster than the global average, making the region more vulnerable to storm surges and flooding.
China may regard the nineteenth-century experience of a windswept island off the northwest
coast
of Europe as an odd source of inspiration.
Nonetheless, politicians continue to exploit the migration issue, with some highly visible arrivals – in particular, the large number of migrants who have been rescued off the
coast
of Libya – keeping the issue in the news.
Lessons from a Divided IslandCAMBRIDGE: Seven hundred miles off Florida’s
coast
lies one of the most impoverished places on earth.
If the nearly 1,700-mile pipeline were to be built, it would run from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, through the heartland of the US, all the way to the Texas
coast
on the Gulf of Mexico.
Further complicating matters is the discovery of oil close to the Cypriot
coast.
After work on the Myitsone Dam halted, several other dam and energy projects were also put on hold, though Chinese firms did manage to complete multibillion-dollar oil and gas pipelines from Myanmar’s western
coast
to southern China in 2013-2014.
Japan’s Revenge of the MandarinsOSAKA – Ever since the huge earthquake that hit Japan’s Pacific
coast
at Tohoku on March 11, 2011, the country’s mass media has obsessively focused on the magnitude of the physical damage and the loss of life.
So it was welcome news when Clinton later deepened America’s commitment to naval security in the seas around China by personally attending joint naval and air exercises with South Korea off the east
coast
of the Korean peninsula.
The FDP is also pushing for common European rules on migration, and for a shared border and
coast
guard.
Satellite links have vastly improved Internet access, and a new undersea cable that runs along the
coast
of Africa (SAT-3) promises to improve and reduce the cost of all types of communications.
We will never know exactly what was going on in Tilly’s mind, but we do know that he has been in captivity since he was about two years old – he was captured off the
coast
of Iceland in 1983.
Sendai airport, near the
coast
in Miyagi Prefecture, now looks more like a seaport.
Such political goodwill is essential for regional stability, particularly given the deterioration in Sino-Japanese relations following last year’s confrontation over the arrest of a Chinese fisherman by Japan’s
coast
guard.
This means that all the reserves in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, and Central Asia would have to be fully developed and exhausted before anyone even bothered exploring under the Arctic ice cap or deep in the Gulf of Mexico or hundreds of miles off the Brazilian
coast.
Barientos’s claim to be the last US boomer rests on Hawaii’s position as America’s most westerly state in a time zone two hours behind the Pacific
coast.
Instead, Manila port officials and the Philippine
coast
guard permitted the Princess of the Stars to set sail, despite clear warnings by the weather bureau that the ship was headed for the eye of the typhoon.
But, as China grows increasingly dependent on imports of resource commodities to meet its basic needs, its
coast
will continue to enjoy a transport-cost advantage.
China’s effort to develop more evenly, despite the permanent in-built advantages of the coast, takes the form of two-way traffic in capital and labor between coastal and interior regions.
Financial transfers flow from the
coast
to interior regions, via government fiscal allocation or other mechanisms, to improve infrastructure, including transport.
But, even with a road, you still must pay for tolls, gasoline, fleet maintenance, and other costs – and it can still take five days to get your goods to the
coast
if you want to export.
As some people migrate to the coast, fewer people will share the interior regions’ resources, causing their per capita income to increase.
In 2012, Chinese patrol vessels chased Philippine fishing boats away from Scarborough Shoal off the Philippine coast, and the Philippine government has taken the dispute to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), which China claims has no jurisdiction.
The arrival of the USS Donald Cook from Norfolk, Virginia, to its new home port in Rota, on Spain’s Atlantic coast, marks the first time that a US Navy ship equipped with the high-tech Aegis ballistic missile-defense system will be permanently based in Europe.
But Mauritius, a small island nation off the east
coast
of Africa, is neither particularly rich nor on its way to budgetary ruin.
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