But Costa Rica's establishment of diplomatic ties with an increasingly powerful China marked a turning point in the region, as U.S. aid declined.
Politicians in the region also point out that they were elected to make changes, not friends.
The massive lake, a focal point of the Saguenay region, is so large that it feels more like an ocean.
During her meeting with Lavrov, Clinton made the point that the wider region -- including Lebanon, Turkey, Israel and Jordan -- faces dangers from the Syrian conflict, the official said.
Thad Allen, the government's point man in the region, said BP has determined there are three sections of drill pipe that need to be removed -- a main pipe and two shorter ones.
Central Networks said about 220, 000 customers had been without power at some point across the West Midlands region.
From a purely economic point of view, the region has already overcome some of the hurdles to a single currency, however.
While Mr. Obama will meet with leaders across the region, the focal point of the trip is the speech that he will deliver to thousands of young Israelis.
Several senior politicians in the region have questioned the point of having a patients watchdog at all if it fails to reflect the local strength of feeling on such issues.
We can only guess, but Hu probably made this meeting happen against the better wishes of his top generals, who have shown no inclination to make nice with the U.S. (or neighbors in the region) at any point in the last year.
Some analysts say the standoff shouldn't have come as a surprise given the region's historical ties, and that it might also point to the dangers of other, perhaps larger flash points elsewhere in the region.
They also point to insecurity in the southern Terai region, home to around 40% of Nepalis.
In March 2005 the US's military credibility in the region was at a high point.
Schwarzkopf attended a Swiss boarding school and later returned to the New York region to enroll at West Point before heading to Vietnam for the first time in 1966.
If you go higher than that, there are other tipping points, especially the release of carbon in the tundra and the things frozen in the tundra region, and that tipping point means it becomes very nonlinear and all of a sudden--boom!
From a geo-political point of view, governments of the region, including the United States, must look beyond hasty conclusions because, as has been repeatedly pointed out, the Bolivarian Revolution is the most far-reaching and most challenging phenomenon in the Western Hemisphere.
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The hearings should have been more substantive because the United States is at a dangerous inflection point in North Africa and the Sahel region to its south, and leaders in both parties need to think carefully about how deeply we want to get involved in this volatile part of the world.
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The optimists point to a buoyant property market and the region's cluster of high-tech investments.
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But it is even more difficult to figure out how huge income disparities in the region can be whittled to the point where incentives to force women into prostitution would disappear.
Well obviously, before you ever get to that point you have to build a relationship in that region.
Growth is slowing - that is the point, Mr Koehler said, adding that no region was picking up the slack.
HIE, thinks that the region has passed an important turning-point.
But unrelated to the energy jobs themselves is the more important point of having reliable, affordable energy in a region, which is necessary to attract large manufacturing or production growth.
Rice said Russia has damaged its standing with the West by intervening in Georgia over the Russian-backed separatist region of South Ossetia, the flash point for the conflict that erupted August 7.
It is certainly the case -- and I think we have been clear about this -- that any military action in that region threatens greater instability in the region, threatens -- as you point out, because Iran borders both Afghanistan and Iraq -- we have civilian personnel in Iraq, we have military personnel as well as civilians in Afghanistan.
The tie moved the U.S. (1-1-1) into third place in World Cup qualifying for the North and Central American and Caribbean region after three of 10 matches, one point behind Panama.
But experts point out that most of the rebuilding in the Gulf region figures to be put off for months--or even years--as home owners and politicians haggle with insurance companies over coverage.
The Organization was also closely involved in the revival of the famous Library of Alexandria, destroyed over 2000 years ago, as a focal point for culture, education and science in the Arab region.
Dr Bilham says that the Indian government has even forbidden him to use a gravity meter in the region (such a meter measures whether a point is moving away from the centre of the earth, and therefore indicates a build up of strain that might be released as an earthquake).
Under the overall authority of the Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), under the Head of the Education Indicators and Data Analys is (EIDA) Section, and the direct supervision of the Programme Specialist, the incumbent will be the main focal point for education statistics for the Latin America and Caribbean region.
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