Word: westernizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Asgharzadeh made clear at the time in his frequent harangues to Western reporters, the students were outraged by the entry of the deposed Shah of Iran into the U.S. for cancer treatment. Mindful of the CIA-engineered coup that restored the Shah to his throne in 1953, the students saw conspiracies everywhere, hence their painstaking effort to reconstruct embassy documents retrieved from the shredder. The students had another aim: they hoped anti-Americanism would end the factional feuds undermining the revolution...
Walk into most any Wal-Mart in the U.S. and here are a few of the things you can buy: condoms, birth control pills, hunting rifles, "Western" style toy guns, the movie There's Something About Mary, the National Enquirer, cigarettes, the video game South Park, the hard-rocking Powerman 5000's hit Tonight the Stars Revolt. And here are a few of the things you can't buy: a "day-after" birth control kit, handguns, authentic-looking plastic guns, Playboy, rolling papers, the movie South Park, the video game Grand Theft Auto and any number...
...always wrestled with my identity and who I am," says Doshi, who father is from Gujarat in western India and whose mother is from Quebec, though her family is from Lebanon...
...Western political pressure is mounting on Moscow to reach a political settlement and avert a humanitarian catastrophe in Chechnya. The issue is set to dominate next week's summit of the 54-nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which will be attended by President Clinton. "Western pressure may actually stiffen the resolve of the generals to fight on," says Meier. "The last thing they want is to be seen to be caving into the West." But some in the military hierarchy are also wary of being caught in the potential quagmire of a guerrilla war in a Chechen...
...National Bible Association), is a how-to book for schools who want to teach about the Bible without teaching the Bible. TIME senior religion writer David Van Biema calls the move "a terrific thing," saying that it could lead to a greatly increased understanding of one of Western civilization's most important cultural and historic documents...