Word: western
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bhutto tried hard to delve into the informalities and novelties of American culture. In her autobiography Daughter of Destiny, she writes of her decision to adopt Western-style clothing--partly because the wardrobe of her homeland was not practical for Boston winters, and partly because it set her apart...
Administrators at the American University in Cairo treated Palestinian students as "controversial people who need to be silenced as much as possible," he says. And while many Egyptians were sympathetic to his cause, Tarazi says he also encountered prejudice similar to Western anti-Semitism from cab drivers and restaurant managers. In a dispute over a fare, one driver, meaning to call Tarazi greedy, said, "don't be such a Palestinian...
...brief exchange, including several rounds from a tank cannon, occurred just south of the Military Museum in western Beijing. It followed unconfirmed reports of soldiers fighting soldiers in the western and southeastern parts of the city Monday and earlier...
Lewis also talked about another side of the British press, describing it as "one of the great conservative institutions of the western world." He said that in England judges can and routinely do stop articles from appearing in papers and that no items can be printed about official matters unless they get clearance from the government...
...since 1948, vigorous scholarly and educational activity carried on by the Center. Many of the 400 or so books written by affiliates of the Center were published during that time, and Harvard was still, as it is now, one of the leading institutions in Russian-Soviet studies in the Western world. Finally, your able reporter may create an erroneous impression when he writes that "the area studies centers compete for funds from the Department of Education under the National Defense Education Act." This does not refer to the Russian Research Center as such--which, to repeat, does not get funds...