Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some skill. In Moscow, however, his frequent disappearances reinforce the perception that the country has already entered the post-Yeltsin era, with the enfeebled President--like the Soviet-era leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Konstantin Chernenko--wielding power in name only. This in turn deepens the fear, often voiced in Western capitals and in Russia, that chaos in the Russian Federation is always lurking just below the surface of daily life. Even the top echelons of Russia's government are concerned. According to a source in the Defense Ministry, armed forces Chief of Staff General Mikhail Kolesnikov recently ordered plans...
...bildungsroman, a novel of education, beginning in the late 1800s. Its main character is a brilliant young Javanese named Minke, the son of a minor native aristocrat, who excels as a token native student at an elite Dutch-language high school. But his true education, and that of a Western reader innocent of Indonesian history, is in the realities of racial and economic oppression...
When faced with a crisis of any kind, and especially with the threatened death of a loved one, people rediscover spirituality with amazing speed. Now Western science is catching up to what some of us have always known: we are not sufficient in ourselves; prayer really does change things. Science can never compete with personal experience. If you've seen someone in your family healed, if you've had your prayers answered, what anyone else thinks about it becomes unimportant. TANYA BANKART Bedford, South Africa...
...world." But Erbakan and Ciller quickly set about trying to reassure everyone that there is nothing to fear from an Islamist-led government. Turkey is a member of NATO and a crucial ally of the U.S.'s in a dangerous part of the world, so Western diplomats were the particular targets of soothing words. Erbakan is a pragmatist, and while he has often denounced NATO and the West, he has now backed away from his Islamic hyperbole...
...rule out UFOs," a power-company spokesman deadpanned. "I think we can rule out computer hackers." The official theory at week's end: a Wyoming power plant's transmission lines may have short-circuited, triggering a ripple effect throughout the Western power grid. Yeah, right...