Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to talk very tough on human rights to tin-pot dictators but keep the tone civil with big countries like China, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Fidel Castro should not expect any change of U.S. policy under a woman who denounces Cuba as an "embarrassment to the western hemisphere." Iraq and Iran will continue to be ostracized by a Secretary who says "their raison d'etre is to destroy the international system." The high-wire act for Albright will be to speak firmly enough to satisfy U.S. critics who charge that trade-conscious Clinton is soft on China...
...messy, but I'm really proud of what happened there. I think we delivered to the U.S. and the U.N." She justifiably claims credit for sweet-talking the U.N. into blessing Washington's invasion of Haiti, the first time the U.N. ever approved a U.S. military intervention in the western hemisphere...
Have you ever felt compelled to leave the crowded, industrial Northeast Corridor and head for a place where the buffalo roam? Try the Best Western Bucks T-4 Lodge in Big Sky, Mont., at (406) 995-4111, where 20 percent of summer employees are college students. You can earn a whopping $6 an hour by staffing the front desk. Yet the cost of living is cheap; you can get room and board for $45 a week, and have time for plenty of pleasure reading...
Although she didn't stay at a Best Western, Joanna H. Case '99, a New Yorker, headed west last summer, working as a waitress at a "touristy diner" in Jackson Hole, Wyo., and recommends the trip to others...
...avoid an outright award of the town to the Serbs or the Muslim-Croat federation, which surely would reignite the fighting. One option he has considered would be dividing the city into three equal parts, with an international governor administering a free port, the Muslim-Croat federation taking the western half of the city and the Serbs taking the east. Before the Serbs seized Brcko at the start of the 3 1/2-year war, 68 percent of the population was Muslim and Croat. To them, allowing Serb control would in essence be a reward for ethnic cleansing. Sejfudin Zahirovic, deputy mayor...