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Corsica

['kɔ:sikә]
科西嘉(岛)[法国东南部省名]

corsica

[ noun ]

an island in the Mediterranean; with adjacent islets it constitutes a region of France

<noun.location>

a region of France on the island of Corsica; birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte

<noun.location>

Corsica \Corsica\ n.
1. an island in the Mediterranean; with adjacent islets it
constitutes a region of France.

Syn: Corse.
[WordNet 1.5]

2. a region of France.

Syn: Corse.
[WordNet 1.5]

The workers are demanding a bonus to offset the high cost of living on Corsica, estimated at 4.2 percent more expensive than the French mainland.
GM President Robert C. Stempel said driver's-side air bags would be standard on 13 of the automaker's 1991 models, including the Chevrolet Corsica, Buick Electra and Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight.
In the May 21-31 period, General Motors Corp.'s sales fell 18.4% to 118,450, despite its heavy promotion of the company's new Corsica and Beretta models.
Police questioned Comiti after finding photographs of the stolen paintings at his home in Corsica, a French-controlled Mediterranean island.
The sailboats were part of a 16-boat flotilla en route from Toulon, France, to Bonifacio, Corsica.
The nine paintings from the Marmottan, along with an as-yet-unidentified 17th century painting, were found Tuesday in a villa in Porto-Vecchio in southern Corsica.
Also, a GM spokesman noted that increasing sales of Chevrolet's new Corsica and Beretta compacts "certainly helped" GM's results, particularly in late April; GM sold 6,073 of the cars in late April, a substantial increase from mid-April.
Airlines operated normally from the two main airports at Ajaccio and Bastia, carrying away tourists trapped in Corsica since the air and sea shutdown started 10 days ago.
The bombs exploded in quick succession about 2 a.m. at branches of four different banks in and near Bastia in northern Corsica.
Two French chemical-spraying aircraft were dispatched from Corsica to help, state television said.
Some 1,000 passengers were stranded in Corsica because of cancellations and delays.
GM said it exports cars made by all five of its divisions, but expects the sales leaders to be Chevrolet Corsica and Beretta, Pontiac Bonneville, and Buick Century models.
In Corsica, shepherds are widely suspected of setting fires to open land and improve next year's grazing.
Chevrolet's midsize Corsica sedan, introduced as a 1988 model, gets a hatch-back version with fold-down rear seat for 1989.
But GM has its own unique troubles, caused partly by an overall product line of look-alike cars that the auto maker is only now beginning to correct with the compact Chevrolet Corsica and Beretta cars introduced last month.
The pilot of the Mirage F-1 radioed that a fire had broken out on board before he ejected and the plane crashed into the Mediterranean Sea off the southern coast of Corsica, a French island about 590 miles southeast of Paris, the officials said.
Rumors that the pictures had been sold to Japan abounded in the five years since the theft, but it seems they were in Corsica most of the time and therefore never left France.
Monet's "Impression: Sunrise" and eight other impressionist works stolen by five gunmen from the small institution on a Sunday morning in late October 1985 were recovered in Corsica in early December with only minor damage.
The No. 1 auto maker said it is idling its Wilmington, Del., assembly plant, which builds the Chevrolet Corsica and Beretta.
Included are the popular Chevrolet Corsica and Beretta models, compact and full-sized Chevrolet and GMC pickup trucks, and the mid-sized Pontiac Grand Prix, Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme and Buick Regal models.
No one was injured in the bombings, claimed by the National Front for the Liberation of Corsica, the main Corsican separatist group fighting French rule of the Mediterranean island.
Under the old program, which expired earlier this month, buyers received $300 back on the Corsica and $500 back on the Beretta.
Chevrolet has said it eventually expects to sell 500,000 Corsica and Beretta cars and 500,000 of the new pickups a year, adding perhaps two points to GM's overall market share.

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