Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...powerful al Saud cousins. "There is jealousy, even hatred," says a Saudi source. "It bothers people that he came from almost nowhere and--zoom!--now he's way up here." Rumors have circulated that he is a front man for others, especially in the Citibank deal. Alwaleed and Western diplomats in Riyadh dismiss them as unfounded. He seems determined to let his influence grow, no matter the consequences. "I have nothing to hide," he says. "I've made $12 billion plus through hard work, and I am proud...
While applications from all regions have risen, Fitzsimmons said that the greatest increases seem to be in the Mid-west and Western regions of the country...
Disney seemed to be taking a risk when it hired Taymor--an avant-garde director who uses puppets, masks and other non-Western theater techniques--to adapt its most popular animated film for the stage. It turns out to have been a masterstroke. Taymor has brought the same kind of let's-start-from-scratch inspiration that Walt and his fellow animators must have had when they created Mickey and Snow White and virtually invented the art of movie animation...
Memory has truncated the liberation of Western Europe into 11 months of steadily grinding the Wehrmacht with fresh replacements and endless supplies from America's factories. Even the Battle of the Bulge is generally regarded as a momentary setback to an inevitable Allied victory. Ambrose, founder of the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans, hears a different story from the veterans--especially those who were ordered to advance continuously through the Hurtgen Forest despite appalling losses. The 28th Division alone suffered more than 6,000 killed and wounded, many by falling branches cunningly blasted from towering evergreens...
...still the controversy grows over the McCaughey's use of fertility drugs. The debate is likely to be fueled by new research released Monday, which shows the sperm count dropping even lower among Western men than scientists had previously suspected. If infertility is such a present danger, perhaps we ought to be glad of all the multiple births...