Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...veto the bill passed Friday by the Duma ? and effectively make Russian Orthodoxy the dominant religion ? would anger the powerful church and a large section of the Russian public who support the bill as a defense of Russian culture. But to pass the measure would draw huge protest from Western churches such as the Mormons, whose large missionary programs in the country would be outlawed...
...tracking down stagecoach robbers and cattle rustlers. Bounty hunters have been celebrated in popular culture--The Hunter, a Steve McQueen movie was inspired by the story of legendary bounty hunter Ralph Thorson, and Midnight Run presented Robert De Niro as a bounty hunter. "It harks back to the endless Western frontier, where no law existed and bounty hunters crossed state lines in pursuit of justice," says Robert McCrie, a professor at New York City's John Jay College of Criminal Justice...
Laden with more firepower than a Western posse, the 1997 Harvard field hockey team might want to rename Cumnock Field the O.K. Corral...
...These are people who want to preserve their Jewish identity while interacting with the Western world," Holtz said...
...15th Communist Party Congress ? expected to inaugurate an era of reforms ? opened Friday, the party was already preparing for the monumental transformation of state-run stores into private enterprises, reports TIME Beijing Bureau Chief Jaime Florcruz. In typical Chinese fashion, though, party chief Jiang Zemin stops short of Western "privatization," instead calling for a "common ownership" system under which workers will be sold stock in most of China's 370,000 state firms...