Word: westernizes
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...find, avoid the subject, as I'm sure it generates fear. But that's OK: at the end of the day, you (and only you) have to cope with this disease. A positive outlook and faith makes all the difference. It's a decision you make. Pieter Erasmus, WESTERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA...
...Uniform policy prescriptions don't come easy for a diverse group of countries ranging from Venezuela to Indonesia. For example, banking-sector repair and reform is likely more needed in India than in China, because India's financial sector is more intertwined with Western markets than China's is. Less sophisticated economies that rely on manufacturing and agriculture may largely avoid the pain that has accompanied the worldwide breakdown of complicated financial systems...
American humorist Josh Billings once said, "Remember the poor, it costs nothing." The quip sounds close to the apparent sentiment among G-7 economic policymakers who met in Washington over the weekend to craft measures aimed at bailing out Western banks amid the global financial crisis...
...West may be hard for some to abandon. Indeed, it is always hard to see a god come crashing down, even a false one. I, however, would like to think that we have moved far enough beyond the age of imperialism to survive without an annual celebration of Western superiority...
...Born in Seattle in 1951 to Elizabeth and Walter C. Monegan Jr.; raised by his grandparents in Western Alaska in a town called Nyac...