Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inevitable, if insincere, remark. If Egypt did not go to war when Israel attacked Lebanon in 1982, notes a senior Arab diplomat, it is unlikely to volunteer help with a Syrian attack on Israel today. Even so, the Mubarak comment has Israeli commanders re-examining their options on the western front...
Chubais has dismissed the recording as a fabrication of his enemies. It was indeed reportedly leaked to the media by an ally of his chief nemesis, General Alexander Korzhakov, Yeltsin's former security chief. But Western diplomats who have studied the transcript say it rings true...
Whether the tape is authentic or not, the controversy surrounding Chubais goes deeper than his campaign tactics. In many ways he embodies Russia's ambivalence about its own political future: Can Western-style democracy work in this enormous, fractious country, or will it resort to its own hybrid of economic liberalism and tight political controls? Chubais may look like a Westernizing technocrat, but he has proved to be a formidable Kremlin infighter. His own political statements portray a mixture of authoritarian and democrat. "For a society to reach democracy," he said recently, "a dictatorship must be established within the government...
...many years Hariston was a Kott plaything. Hariston's stock had been sold by First Commerce Securities. The company was once called Western Allenbee Oil & Gas and later renamed Convoy Capital. Whatever the label, Hariston bore an odd resemblance to First Commerce's main piece of merchandise, DeVoe-Holbein International. It too boasted technology that could squeeze minerals from water, and one of the same scientists was involved: Irving W. DeVoe, a Canadian professor who had co-founded DeVoe-Holbein. In the early 1990s, a Hariston unit announced a project to extract minerals from mining waters in Butte, Montana...
Your dear lost cousin just crawled out of a swamp in Australia and needs cash. How ya gonna get it there? Western Union, probably. It's been a consistent choice in such situations. So would anyone really invest in a rival money-transfer company called MoneyGram, set to raise a hefty $230 million in an initial public offering of stock next week? Just watch...