The Department of Transportation, for example, requires that recipients of its funding award a percentage of contracts to minority-owned businesses and many large companies have goals for buying from minority-owned suppliers. The reason for such mandates is twofold.
A coastal zone is the interface between the land and water. These zones are important because a majority of the world's population inhabit such zones. The tidal bulges result in a rhythmic rise and fall of ocean surface, which is not noticeable to someone on a boat at sea, but is magnified along the coasts. 2  Usually there are two high tides and two low tides each day, and thus a variation in sea level as the tidal bulge passes through each point on the Earth's surface.
Definition of surf. 1  1 : the swell of the sea that breaks upon the shore. 2  2 : the foam, splash, and sound of breaking waves.