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Перевод: Alaska

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Аляска [геогр.]

Тезаурус:

1. Judging by the visitors' book, it has already been seen by several thousand members of the public and potential clients - including visitors from most European Countries and from as far away as Brazil, Alaska and South Korea.
2. The plea bargain agreed between Exxon, the Justice Department and the state of Alaska had set the company's total liability at 1 billion: 900m of this was a civil settlement to meet costs incurred by the government in cleaning up the 11m gallons of oil spilt into Prince William Sound; the other 100m was a fine, payable to the Treasury, to settle the four criminal charges.
3. There is little tundra in the southern hemisphere (where there is very little land at appropriate latitudes) and only a narrow strip in Europe, which is warmed by the Gulf Stream; but there are vast tracts in the north of Canada and Alaska, and the northern shore of Asia.
4. And there is a dreadful stew of federal subsidies and tax breaks (for such things as logging in Alaska, irrigation in California, grazing on federal land in Nevada) that actually subsidise those engaged in making the environment worse.
5. Oil slicks in Alaska and elsewhere helped Vikoma, the group's environmental cleaning equipment manufacturer, which specialises in separating oil from water, and although Salvesen brick, is suffering in the second half from a 30 to 40 per cent cut in demand as housebuilding nosedives, the first half was prosperous and full year trading profit should be on a level with 1988, says finance director Brian Fidler.
6. Gas imports will reach some 70 MTOE by 1990 but grow more slowly subsequently as gas supplies from Alaska increase.
7. A field discovered following the controversial opening up of the Santa Maria basin off California could turn out to be the largest discovered since the Prudhoe Bay field in Alaska but the most stringent efforts will do no more than mitigate an inevitable production decline.
8. In the south west of Alaska, the volcanic chain picks up again strongly, and swings out to sea to form the long arcs of the Aleutian and Kurile Islands.
9. By the second half of the 1980s oil was cheap once again, thanks to the spur the crises had given to non-OPEC developments like the Alaska North Slope and North Sea oil fields.
10. I understood that there was considerable air traffic from the U.S.A. across Canada to Alaska, and thence over the tundra of the Siberian wastes to the land of our "great Russian allies".
11. Alaska has rarely decisively elected any mainstream candidate.
12. Market research showed that only 15 per cent of US adults had made a "foreign" trip in the three years prior to 1989 - and that included trips to Hawaii and Alaska.
13. Inset This 1950s travel brochure put remote Alaska on the tourist map.