Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decades hence? According to the number-crunchers, it's best to be elderly, educated and female. Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest rate of traffic-related injuries and deaths, because it has a high population of young men ? the riskiest drivers ? and low education standards. Smart women drivers in Western countries are the safest...
Then last week Japan tried the unthinkable: regulators let a prominent yet insolvent bank, Hokkaido Takushoku, go bust. Instead of a panic, Japan's Western-style measure elicited a Western-style response: stocks surged 11% in two days. Imagine the rally if they had killed a bigger bank. Investors in the U.S. aren't strangers to the perversity of free markets. How many times have you seen a company so down that it says it must shed thousands of jobs, and the stock zooms? So ingrained is this convoluted logic that the mere appointment of a CEO known for tough...
...yeah. It's rough. It's like those old western movies. Hit me with a joke. Hey you, Funny Boy. I bet you haven't heard this...
...plunder was so great, the U.S. government later estimated, that by 1945, German forces had seized or coerced the sale of one-fifth of all the world's Western art. Some of the thousands of looted works were brought back to the Reich. But others were shipped abroad, principally to New York, where the art market continued to function even as fighting raged in Europe. One painting cited by the U.S. Treasury, Van Gogh's The Man Is at Sea, was apparently slipped out of France by a New York dealer who then sold it to Hollywood idol Errol Flynn...
...very first tale, In Broad Daylight, invites Western readers into an alien landscape and a harrowing situation. White Cat, the young narrator, learns from his friend Bare Hips that the Red Guards have caught Old Whore, a local woman accused of prostitution, and will parade her through the streets to the place of public denunciations and punishment. White Cat is excited at the promised spectacle, as is everyone in the town; a bleak place like Dismount Fort offers few public diversions...