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...Istanbullu consumer when he clocked Fendi's wholesale demand rising over $1.28 million. "The definition of luxury here is individuality, as opposed to the more Eastern approach which is, 'I'm buying to belong.' In the West, you are buying to be different. In that sense, Istanbul is Western???although of course, it's also the gateway to the East...
...spite of all the efforts by Western??governments and Western news media to keep Pakistan from being branded "terror center" of the world, the facts just keep saying otherwise. It is understandable that the U.S. would want Pakistan to deal with the monster it has created. But sooner or later, Western governments will have to get involved in that nation's internal affairs. Only direct intervention by the West is going to eradicate the threat coming out of Pakistan. SURESH SHETH Houston...
Similarly, TIME'S tone was flip and irreverent, but the magazine combined with this a certain solemnity about American?and Western???values. These included self-reliance, success and salvation through progress. TIME certainly did not accept T.S. Eliot's metaphor for modern civilization: a review of The Waste Land in the first issue suggested that the poem might be a hoax...
...from $343 million in 1976. Profits this year are expected by several Wall Street investment analysts to rise to the $700 million area. True, much of the recent increase has come not from flying but from plane sales, tax credits and hotel subsidiaries. Indeed, some carriers?Eastern, TWA, Northwest, Western???show declining operating profits. But the competition for passengers, especially nonbusiness travelers who make up 48% of the traffic, is certain to remain intense. So the number of low-cost fares will probably grow...
...them are busy issuing political manifestoes, organizing riots, and working for the downfall of governments. From the Indian Ocean to the Sea of Japan, from the Irrawaddy to Tonkin Bay, bonzes are causing political waves whose final effect even they themselves cannot foresee but which are vitally affecting the Western???and the Communist?role in the fate of Asia...
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