GOOD ENGLISH
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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GOOD ENGLISH. An informal term for English regarded as all or any of the following: well-spoken, well-written, well-constructed, fluent, effective, a mark of good breeding and social standing, a mark of good education. The term appears from time to time in the title of usage guides, in the sense of
good usage: for example, Godfrey Howard's
A Guide to Good English in the 1980s (London: Pelham Books, 1985). See
BAD ENGLISH, GRAMMAR,
STANDARD ENGLISH.
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Kuril Islands and Russia's security.
Magazine article from: Military Thought; 5/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Kurils and for Sakhalin Island. The historical record...could be offered for the islands. But the importance of the Kuril Islands is even greater...look at the map. The islands of the Greater Kuril Ridge stretch from the...eastern tip of the island of Hokkaido. Using ...
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Geologists prospect for lode gold on Kuril island.
Newspaper article from: Russia & CIS Business and Financial Newswire; 6/29/2006; 549 words
; ...Geologists prospect for lode gold on Kuril island YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK...the island of Iturup, in the Kuril chain off Russia's Pacific...geological survey on Sakhalin Island that will be used to give recommendations...Ministry has said the Southern Kuril Islands have been ...
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Russia Wants Kuril Islands Settled
News Wire article from: AP Online; 1/3/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...four southernmost Kuril islands as if they were...the most populous island -- is an unbroken...plant, once the island's economic hub...year ago. ``The Kuril Islands used to live...for leasing an island if it allows us...dispute over the four islands, which are part of ...
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The Kuril Islands.(GEOPOLITICAL HOTSPOT)
Magazine article from: Geographical; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...between 1875 and 1945, the Kuril Islands were effectively handed...While claims to the Kuril Islands were renounced...connections to visit the islands. Russia's parliament...expedite matters, the Kuril Islands' population is...
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KURIL ISLANDS RELY MORE ON JAPAN THAN ON MOTHER RUSSIA.(News)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 3/15/1999; 700+ words
; ...four southernmost Kuril Islands as if they were...the most populous island - is an unbroken...plant, once the island's economic hub...year ago. ``The Kuril Islands used to live...for leasing an island if it allows us...dispute over the four islands, which are part of ...
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Kuril Islands ask Moscow mayor for patronage
News Wire article from: AP Online; 10/28/1998; 287 words
; ...become part of Japan, the disputed Kuril Islands want to be part of Moscow, a news...said today. The head of the South Kuril administration, Vladimir Zema...On Tuesday, Zema said the South Kuril administration also was circulating...
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Evidence of diurnal shelf waves in satellite-tracked drifter trajectories off the Kuril Islands
Magazine article from: Journal of Physical Oceanography; 9/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Pacific continental shelf of the Kuril Islands where they encountered...over the Okhotsk shelf of the Kuril Islands. The across-shelf...regions, including the southern Kuril Islands (Kovalev and Rabinovich 1980...the west coast of Vancouver Island (Crawford and Thomson 1982...
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Russian-Chinese experience may be used to settle Kuril Islands dispute.
Newspaper article from: China Business News; 11/15/2004; 700+ words
; ...experience may be used to settle Kuril Islands dispute MOSCOW. Nov 14 (Interfax...between Russia and Japan over the Kuril Islands may be settled according...Russia's possible transfer of two Kuril islands to Japan should be accompanied...
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5.5 Quake Reported in Kuril Islands
News Wire article from: AP Online; 8/28/2007; 260 words
; ...110 miles southwest of Severo-Kuril'sk in the Kuril Islands - 1,210 miles northeast...were no reports of damage. The Kuril Islands are held by Russia but also claimed by Japan, where the four-island chain is known as the Northern...
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Russian Official on Problem of South Kuril Islands
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire; 4/21/1998; 405 words
; ...develop economic cooperation in the disputed South Kuril Islands, a Russian official said Tuesday. The economic...are still at odds over the status of the South Kuril Islands. The South Kuril Islands, once Japanese territory, have been under...
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Kuril Islands
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...been disputed territory. The Kuril islands are administered by Russian...During the Soviet period the islands were considered a vital garrison...outpost. The military valued the island chain's role in protecting...the Soviet government, the Kuril islanders were neglected by...
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Kuril Trench
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
Kuril Trench The oceanic trench which marks part of the destructive plate margin between the Pacific and N. American Plates . The Kuril Trench is backed by the Kuril Island Arc , running from Kamchatka to northernmost Japan.
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island arcs
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...whether they are situated as islands in the middle of oceans or...Central and South America. Island arcs include only those separated...is therefore a spectrum of island-arc types. Some are truly...continental and oceanic (Andaman islands, Banda, Japan, Kuril, and Sulawesi). The Aleutian...
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Sakhalin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan, by the Soya Strait. With the Kuril Islands it forms the Sakhalin...elongated and forested island. The climate is severe...when Japan obtained the Kuril Islands in return. Sakhalin became...
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Japan, Relations with
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...notably the dispute over the four Kuril islands, or northern territories, in...southward from Kamchatka into the Kuril island chain, encountering Japanese settlers...Shimoda granting Etorofu and the islands south of it to Japan. Russia...
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