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An area of wooded land. Also: the whole land of a nation. An area of land that is controlled by its own government, president, king etc.

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  • ProReforma is a made-in-Guatemala solution to what it calls the country's "chronic crisis."
  • Navy Seal during the Vietnam War - served 4 tours in country, is highly decorated, and completed his training in Coronado.
  • News fer ya, "Bart": The whole friggin 'country is worried about global warming (and Iraq and the economy and pollution and energy depletion, etc.).
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  • John F. Kennedy made this line famous in our times.
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