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The vast majority of North America is on the North American Plate. Parts of California and western Mexico form the partial edge of the Pacific Plate, with the two plates meeting along the San Andreas fault. The southern-most portion of the continent and much of the West Indies lie on the Caribbean Plate, while the Juan de Fuca and Cocos Plates border the North American Plate on its western frontier.
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North Americans have always been immigrants, and for the first Americans the New World was a land of abundance. Cooler, less seasonal, and more thickly forested than today, it contained a wide variety of species. Living off the land, the incoming peoples branched into diverse cultures.
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December 5, 2006 - St. Louis, Missouri - Bunge North America, the North American operating arm of Bunge Limited (NYSE: BG), announced that it will resume canola operations at its oilseed processing plant in Hamilton, Ontario. Once the needed modifications are complete in December 2007, the plant will have the capacity to crush 240,000 MT of canola per year. The plant will continue to process soybeans. [Full Release]
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John Seiple, President and Chief Investment Officer for North America, will assume responsibility for the North American investment strategy, capital deployment and development activities. In addition, he will have responsibility for Global Services activities and ProLogis Solutions. Seiple will chair both the North American Management Committee and the North American Investment Committee. Previously, Seiple was President and Chief Operating Officer - North America.
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After 2005, the North American version was sold in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and some Latin American countries, while the newer European version was available in other worldwide markets. The European Focus II replaced the older model Focus in Mexico by early 2007. Unlike previous small Fords in the North American market, including the Pinto, the Escort and Contour, no Mercury version was sold. The U.S. Focus is the smallest of Ford's sedans, listed from smallest to largest: Focus, Fusion, Taurus, and Crown Victoria.
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The economy of Britain's North American colonies was similarly varied, primarily as the result of differences in the climate and soil. The relatively temperate climate of the New England and Mid-Atlantic colonies allowed their inhabitants to practice European-style farming in cereals, root crops, and animal husbandry. And as in Europe, most northern farms relied on their families to meet their labor requirements. In the South, on the other hand, the longer and warmer growing season permitted the cultivation of more exotic cash crops like tobacco in the Chesapeake Bay area and Albemarle Sound region of North Carolina and rice in the lower part of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia (after 1733). Since these crops were labor-intensive, their production presented a problem, not least because most Native Americans refused to acculturate to European-style production methods and were in any case too few in number. Initially the labor problem was solved in the Chesapeake region by the system of indentured servitude.
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