1.   Whole regions need to be explored, involving a program of survey.

2.   As the year turns all sides are holding their breath and hoping it brings the good news the region needs to hear.

3.   A Free Trade Area of the Americas would ultimately give Central American countries access to the U.S. market, but the region needs to do some hard work beforehand.

4.   Agronomists say the region needs more rain to support soil moisture while the plants are in the flowering stage.

5.   But as it struggles to restore stability, our entire region needs protection.

6.   But Lebed assured the voters that the region need an experienced crisis manager, not an economist.

7.   For the wildfire to burn out of control, the region will need to continue to work toward unification, both within the region and with the U.S.

8.   Government officials say that what the region needs to recover from the drought is more snow on the ground, more rain and more coastal storms.

9.   Others contend that the region will need more than pluck to fully recover from the quake.

10.   Others say they stem from a conviction by local boosters that the wintry region needs something to make it attractive.