During the 1980s, the countries of the pacific rim that had developed robust economies and that appeared to have great staying power earned the collective nickname of:

monasticism. people often do monasticism in monasteries

sorry i really dont know

its many islands, high mountains, and remote peninsulas isolated population centers.

answer: the time zones used to be whatever the local authority wanted them to be. one town might have 6am whenever the sun came up and another town had 6am 10 minutes later.  

the trains had a hard time when their orders said to be at a certain point at 6am.  

6am, but who's 6am.  

the railroads got together and set the time zones more or less along the longitude lines across the country.

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