Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stolen off Western Avenue in the Allston suburb of Boston early Friday, said Peggy A. McNamara, a spokesperson for the Harvard University Police Department...
...Western Europe should be so lucky. Economic growth resumed there this year, but the projected gains are pretty modest: 2.3% in 1997 and 2.7% in 1998. The fate of the common currency of the European Monetary Union, which is to be inaugurated Jan. 1, 1999, is a big reason. The new unit, known as the euro, will proceed on schedule, predicts John Hsu, CEO of John Hsu Capital Group, a New York City-based money-management firm. "But there will be all kinds of compromises. That implicitly means the euro is going to be a weak currency." Britain is expected...
...ethical debate here is obviously a complex one, without a clear distinction between right and wrong. Comparisons to Tuskegee don't help; neither does the imposition of Western views, or what Dr. Edward Mbidde of Uganda calls "ethical imperialism." Calm and careful deliberations are in order. Insisting on the infeasible in the name of ethical purity is counterproductive in the struggle to stop this deadly virus...
This was an offer--for the Reagan Ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif.--all too many were able to refuse. The Western White House sat on the market for 13 months until the perfect buyer, one who can print money if he has to, showed an interest: Uncle Sam. Republican Congressman Ralph Regula of Ohio, chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee in charge of federal parks, is brokering a deal whereby Congress will appropriate $5 million and give it to California, which will in turn give it to the Reagans for the 100-year-old adobe house and grounds they paid...
...wholesale rebuilding effort. Indeed, in its 1998 budget, the Navy is seeking $3 billion to replace the Seawolf with a third generation of nuclear-powered attack submarines. It argues that Russia's fledgling Akula and yet to be built Severodvinsk classes are "projected to outperform today's most advanced Western submarines in many respects." Someone should tell the Navy that the cold war is over...