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The world’s oldest rainforests engulf low but steeply rising mountain chains that cross the peninsula from east to west like ribs, with one long north–south Main Range as their backbone.
What was his appeal to the "silent majority" but a subtle invitation to think like Nixon: to believe that our neighbors might be our enemies, and that our enemies might engulf us?
It's quite possible, as Harvard Professor Mary Waters suggests, that the ranks of the white will simply expand to engulf the "lighter" or more "culturally white" of the multiracials.
It is amusing to watch the "strange new respect" phenomenon engulf Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott as journalists wake up to the fact that he is not the conservative ideologue he appears.
Like the Panic of 1873--or the similar panics of 1893; 1907; 1920; and 1931, that mother of all bank runs (which, much more than the 1929 stock crash, caused the Great Depression)--it can spread to engulf the whole economy.