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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An island group in the western Pacific Ocean east of the Philippines. Guam, the largest island of the group, is independent of the others, which are known formally as the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The Marianas were claimed by Magellan for Spain in 1521. They were sold to Germany in 1899 (when Guam was ceded to the United States) and later became a Japanese mandate (1919–1944).
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- noun a chain of coral and volcanic islands in Micronesia (including Guam and the Northern Marianas) halfway between New Guinea and Japan; discovered by Magellan in 1521
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Sites include the Challenger Deep, part of the Mariana Trench, near the Mariana Islands, in the Pacific.
Fancy a trip to see the Titanic? Super-subs will take tourists to the bottom of the sea 2011
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Mark Zachares, who worked as an aide for Young before pleading guilty to conspiracy as part of the Abramoff scandal, served as the Mariana Islands' Secretary of Labor and Immigration from 1998 to 2002 -- the same time that Young was blocking reform on the islands.
Josh Horwitz: The NRA Knows Corruption. Just Ask Jack Abramoff. Josh Horwitz 2011
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Mr. Obama said one U.S. aircraft carrier is in Japan, another is on its way, and a ship is heading to the Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean to prepare to take assistance to Japan.
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In 1995 and again in 2000, Young allowed bills that would have improved working conditions on the Mariana Islands which were unanimously passed by the U.S. Senate to die in committee.
Josh Horwitz: The NRA Knows Corruption. Just Ask Jack Abramoff. Josh Horwitz 2011
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The Mariana Islands comprise two political entities, the territory of Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
Robert Naiman: Guam: Self-Determination, or More U.S. Troops? 2010
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The clients - U.S. Indian casinos and clothing factories in the Mariana Islands -- were working to maintain special privileges provided by American law -- offering gambling where it is otherwise barred or being allowed to import products labeled made in the USA without complying with stateside labor laws.
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The economy of the Mariana Islands has been tied to tourism and garment factories.
Michelle Chen: Minimum Wage, and Controversy, Reaches Distant U.S. Islands 2010
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In the Pacific Theater, whole fleets of B-29s — up to 800 on a single raid — would roll down coral-and-asphalt runways and stagger into the air, bound for the 3,000-mile round trip from the Mariana Islands to the empire of Japan.
When Victory Was in the Air Daniel Ford 2010
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The economy of the Mariana Islands has been tied to tourism and garment factories.
Minimum Wage, and Controversy, Reaches Distant U.S. Islands 2010
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A small corrective is being offered as part of Asian Pacific Heritage Month by PBS, which is webcasting Vanessa Warheit's documentary, The Insular Empire: America in the Mariana Islands until next Sunday, June 20.
Robert Naiman: Guam: Self-Determination, or More U.S. Troops? 2010
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