Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when white missionaries undercut the tribal status system by proselytizing its lowliest members, such as women, children and assorted outcasts. As elders lost prestige, the young flocked to cities; severed from tribal morals yet longing for them, some sank into alcoholism, prostitution and petty crime in order to attain Western luxuries. Most were victims of "alienation"?also a Western luxury of sorts...
Deputy Premier Ota Sik, the country's top economist, wants to eliminate price supports, close inefficient plants, retrain workers and import Western goods so that Czechoslovak consumers can become accustomed to-and demand from their own manufacturers-better-grade products. In order to slip away from the Soviet embrace, Sik wants to borrow $500 million in Western Europe if the Soviets will not provide what he needs. With that money, Czechoslovak plants could buy the new equipment that they need to turn out high-quality products to sell in competitive Western markets...
...banking firm, White made himself heard back home in Denver in 1964 by parlaying $100,000 of his own money into control of Colorado Milling & Elevator Co. He then shook up Denver's old guard with some financial wizardry that enabled him to take over the venerable Great Western Sugar Co. He has since merged his two companies into the Great Western United Corp., a diversified $259 million-a-year food products firm, of which he is both chairman and president...
...years, up to 1918, his country was dominated by a Western power, the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Czechs' only hope was that a strong nation of similar Slavic culture, sensitive to Slav desires for self-determination, would help her drive for independence. The Russian Bolsheviks during the crucial years of World War I, became her champion...
Further, he will ask how we decide between intensive care to the irreversibly ill and broad basic medical care to the many. Doctors are dedicated to the extension of human life by virtue of the binding Hippocratic oath. In the light of family feelings and the traditional Western regard for life, it is difficult to turn of the respirator, as the report recommends, just because a report redefinition of death is satisfied