Word: western
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...Redwood Shores Classic is billed as the "Best of the East versus the Best of the West," and this year, the East reigned preeminent. The only western team (out of four) to pull out a quarterfinal victory was Washington, which outlasted Wisconsin by 2.3 seconds (5:53.90 to 5:56.20). The final tally: East--a 6-3 record and the champion and runner-up; West--a 1-4 record and a wounded pride...
...protesting intellectuals particularly criticized the Amazon project that is of most concern to ecologists: a proposed road across the western state of Acre to Pucallpa, Peru, where it would link up with a Peruvian highway that stretches over the Andes to Lima. The highway link would provide Acre with a Pacific outlet for its tropical hardwoods, which are much in demand in Japan. It would also open up the western Amazon for the first time to the kind of commercial exploitation that, in the view of environmentalists, would lead to devastation...
...cause overseas. It is, of course, domestic imperatives that have forced Gorbachev to readjust, even reconstruct Soviet foreign policy. Henry Trofimenko, a specialist at Moscow's Institute of U.S.A. and Canada Studies, laid the Kremlin's newly realistic approach squarely on three forces: money, perestroika and the need for Western assistance. Said Trofimenko: "First of all, we should spend less money abroad. Second, there should be a concentration of people's efforts on our internal situation. Third, we are trying to improve relations with the West...
...editorial predicted that 500,000 people in the Western Hemisphere are likely to be diagnosed with acquired immune deficiency syndrome...
While Felix Gallardo was being seized in the western state of Jalisco, Mexican army troops were used to swoop down on his hometown of Culiacan, the capital of the northwestern state of Sinaloa, and arrested every police officer on the force...