The Northwest region is not much more promising, although a small new port at Prince Rupert in Canada (the most direct shot from Shanghai) is coming online.
"This wouldn't have happened two or three years ago, " said Valerie Heller, region manager for commercial real estate in U.S. Bank's Pacific Northwest region, of the Idaho construction loan.
"Peel will establish stronger business relationships with China and other emerging economies which we believe will be the start of additional overseas joint ventures that move other projects forward and kick-start much needed growth in the Northwest region".
The mountains in the state's northwest region roll off the southern tip of the Rocky Mountains, and a maze of mountains and valleys funnel the wind into extreme speeds by the time they pass over ridge crests and mountain tops of the Guadalupe and Davis mountains.
The group, formed to help clean up the oil spill and demand justice, lists its name in the gallego language of the northwest Galicia region.
Yet as Hassan Abbas, a former Pakistani police chief in the Northwest Frontier Region of Pakistan wrote in a recent paper for the Jamestown Foundation, it is unclear how US development assistance can be credibly put to good use.
Such a view was caused in part by years of MLS expanding elsewhere before coming to the Northwest even though the region had long demonstrated it was very capable and very willing to support a club within the league.
Two soldiers and 16 militants were killed in clashes in the Tirah Valley area of the Khyber tribal region in the northwest, the military said in a statement.
That 2008 survey showed the nation's most popular snowboarding region is the Pacific Northwest -- including Washington and Oregon -- where the proportion is 48.5 percent snowboarders, said spokesman Troy Hawks.
Intelligence officials believe bin Laden is hiding in the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan, a remote and primitive region with mountain peaks as tall as 14, 000 feet (4, 270 meters) that make the terrain difficult to navigate.
The Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia lies in the northwest of Russia's troubled North Caucasus region.
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"This is a wake up call to the region that there is no easy way out, " said Rob Masonis, Northwest director for American Rivers.
During the seven-month period from January to July, the average temperature was 56.4 degrees, or 4.3 degrees higher than the region's long-term average, according to NOAA. Besides the Pacific Northwest, which saw seasonally average temperatures, the country saw record or near-record temperatures during the seven-month period.
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