In appreciation, a succession of Congress governments transformed the town from a rural backwater to a model region with industry and modern farms.
Confirmation that European subduction had started could allow scientists to model the region better, and so make better assessments of earthquake and tsunami risk.
As in many other things, tiny Singapore's pioneering efforts are a model for the region.
The election of the constituent assembly in 2011 was seen as a model throughout the region.
As its neighbour, Indonesia, is torn by violence and corruption, Australia seems to present a good model for the region.
Although the model differs from region to region and doctor to doctor, concierge medicine basically means that patients pay doctors to be their agents, rather than the agents of third-party-payers such as insurance companies or government bureaucracies.
With a new constitution and a shift to a parliamentary system in the summer of 2010, observers, especially Americans, hoped Kyrgyzstan might become a model democracy in a region largely run by unsavoury strongmen.
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And what we saw in Honolulu, in APEC, was that a number of countries that weren't part of the initial discussions -- like Japan, Canada, Mexico -- all expressed an interest in beginning the consultations to be part of this high-standard trade agreement that could potentially be a model for the entire region.
The form of state created by Gamal Abdul Nasser after Egypt's 1952 revolution became a model for much of the region.
His state visit to Chile bolsters it as the region's model of good economics, transparency and the rule of law (see article).
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We think that Poland, because of its extraordinary success, both as a democracy and as a market-based economy, is a model and example for the region.
According to Mr Andrews, the merger would provide an opportunity for these institutions to develop a model of provision across the region to deliver higher education more sustainably and coherently.
And as the two largest economies in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Australia and the United States are helping to lead the way to a new model for trade across the region.
Model name may vary by region.
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Red Herring, in particular, wants to spread the word about the region's innovation model.
And it can be I think a real model, not only for the region but for the world.
Many elements of the so-called Chilean model were widely emulated in the region.
Greenwald explained that countries must have a good tourism infrastructure to make the list, but the non-profit also uses the list to promote some under-visited places that can be a role model for other countries in their region.
Once the poster child for urban despair, New Orleans may develop a blueprint for turning a devastated region into a role model not only for other American cities but for struggling urban regions around the world.
"Now mobile phone ownership is perhaps 30% of households and cell phone coverage is widespread, " said Sachs, director of the United Nations Millennium Villages Project, which focuses on improving 14 rural villages across 10 African countries as a model for wider prosperity in the region.
The TPP -- the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement that I just met with the countries who are involved, we're doing some outstanding work trying to create a high-level trade agreement that could potentially be a model not just for countries in the Pacific region but for the world generally.
After the parting shots by Robert Gates, the US Defence Secretary, predicting a "dim and dismal" future for Nato if the other members of the alliance do not do more to defend their interests, it is apparent that extending the "Libyan model" of intervention elsewhere in the troubled region would be extremely hard.
If it does, the Iraqis certainly have the human and physical resources to transform their nation into a model of prosperity, civilization and opportunity in a region of the world that has known too little of these things of late.
Domestically, the model is currently being reproduced by other leaders in the region (so far Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua).
Incentives may vary by region and by trim level within a given model line, and some may require dealer participation.
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First of all, they ran the model backwards to check that it could accurately recreate conditions seen in the region since the 1960s.
In the first three months of this year, the commission's model predicts growth of 0.1-0.4%, not far off the region's quarterly average of around 0.5%.
In the process, a model can emerge that other Arab societies may look to and emulate for their own transformation and that of the entire region.
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