Word: westernism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Albuquerque, N.M. The bus rolled in just before midnight, two days out of Port Authority, and although the local buses had stopped running, I figured I could walk out of town and camp out. Wrong. It is about seven miles, uphill, from the bus depot to the western edge of town, a high flat plateau, or ten miles east to the base of the Sandias mountain range...
With the seagulls over Harvard Stadium beginning to look more like vultures, and with sportswriters getting ready to write the '78 Crimson's obituary already, the powerful UMass football team will roll into Harvard Stadium from western Massachusetts this afternoon in hopes of mashing the Crimson...
Originally, the tournament was envisioned as a tuna catching shindig, but since its inception only four tuna have been boated. (The fishermen have hooded nine others, all of whom got away.) In 1964, George Deagle of the University of Western Ontario brought in a 703-lb. tuna. However, the tuna population has been on the wane in the past few years, and the peak tuna season comes two weeks after the tournament...
Soviet-American relations over the next few years will probably continue to be characterized by "Cooperation and competition" and will "blow hot and cold," Huntington said. Referring to Western economic strength in relations with Russia, he said Soviet trade with the West which benefits the Soviet economy will most likely continue to increase provided that the Soviets restrain their activities with Cuba in African countries such as Ethiopia and Angola and if they "modify the way in which they treat their own people...
Namibia--an arid land of little more than one million people--has emerged as a major Western supplier of a variety of scarce resources such as copper, silver, lead and diamonds. U.S.-owned mining operations alone account for more than 40 percent of the foreign investment in the territory. In the past three years, the West had embarked on a campaign to exploit Namibia's uranium resources, which represent an estimated five per cent of the total world supply. Overall, the rate of exploitation of Namibia's mineral wealth has accelerated in recent years, leading many Namibian nationalists to charge...