41.   In this northern region of San Diego County, residents are accustomed to heat, horses and avocado orchards.

42.   In their models of climate patterns, scientists have long suggested that the northern polar region would be affected earlier and more seriously than the southern region.

43.   Iran need more oil in its northern regions on the coast of the Caspian Sea, where its biggest cities are located.

44.   It is likely to make a governing pact with a Madrid-based national party that wants to keep the prosperous northern Basque region firmly within Spain.

45.   It must be happening somewhere, but not in the northern Ozark region I know, where the hillsides are rocky and steep, the earth thin.

46.   Kredietbank, a Belgian bank with roots in the Northern region of Flanders, said it had no desire to form part of a larger alliance of Belgian banks.

47.   Meantime, heating oil and natural gas fell amid forecasts for mild weather in northern regions of the country next week.

48.   Milosevic had already crushed the autonomous status of Kosovo and of the ethnically mixed northern Vojvodina region of Serbia, so eradicating one long-standing Serbian grudge.

49.   Mexican officials have explained the mounting water shortage in the northern Mexican region as one of the vagaries of nature.

50.   Northern temperate regions would experience more rain and less snow in winter.