Word: westerner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such waves? The first ingredient, says Collins, is a powerful storm. Its winds blow across the surface of the ocean, creating little wavelets that grow into larger and larger waves. Eventually, a swarm of waves four or more feet high may sweep out from a storm in the far-western Pacific, say, and head toward the coast of North America. The trouble is, not all 4-ft. waves are created equal. One may turn into a wimpy 4-ft. breaker when it nears the shore, while another may shoot up to a height of 15 or more feet...
...individual owes the community, the obligation of the individual to share what he has with the community. It is both blessing and curse, the root of Africa's strong families and social customs and the root cause of its debilitating corruption and crime. Yet as the continent embraces Western ways, its people do not want to lose everything African. What we need to encourage--what Africa needs to make for itself--is lives and systems that mesh modernization with an African way of doing things. That's what works...
...challenger to his power could ever emerge. But if Indonesians have come to expect his cryptic utterances, Suharto's inscrutable manner has unnerved international lenders trying to hammer out concrete programs to restructure the country's banking system and reschedule corporate debt. "What is this man about?" asked a Western banker in Jakarta. "Anytime you think you have a solution, he reshuffles the cards, and you have to start all over. It's brutal...
Asked whether his forthright nuclear stance invited criticism from Western powers concerned about a South Asian arms race, Atal Bihari Vajpayee said: "We are not concerned with anyone's displeasure...
Henry Burton, the campaign aide with a troubled conscience, is lying on a hotel bed watching a movie on TV. It's the last moment of Shane, the Mount Everest of the heroic western, and a desolate little boy is crying to the hillsides, "Shane, Shane! Come back!" Henry cries out in return, "And run for President...