Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...joint OIT/OUP facility will be located at 219 Western...
Earlier in the summer the Western allies had warned unequivocally that a Serb attack like the one last Monday would provoke a massive response. But previous NATO bluster had led Serbs and Muslims alike to conclude that the alliance was all bark and no bite. Even after the shell had hit Sarajevo, vacillation appeared to be the likely outcome as the U.N. insisted on sifting the evidence to make sure the Bosnian Serbs were indeed the culprits. Then bad weather and a protective shift of British peacekeepers further delayed the nato attacks. As the hours ticked away, it seemed...
...means that Minnesota will earn pots of money. Typically, residents of the Southwest today pay up to $45 per 1,000 cu. ft. of water. That price may rise as the aquifers of the Western plains recede and more rivers are diverted to irrigation. But assuming the price remains at $45 per 1,000 cu. ft., the value of Lake Superior would be an astounding $20 trillion. In addition, Minnesota would receive current market prices for the fish...
...market last Monday. On the phone from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where he was vacationing, he told his National Security Adviser, Anthony Lake, that if, as expected, the Bosnian Serbs were found to be responsible, nato would have to retaliate. By shelling Sarajevo, he said, the Serbs were daring the Western alliance--and specifically the U.S.-to live up to its recent promise to answer such attacks with substantial air strikes. "This absolutely requires a response," Clinton declared...
...forget Lonesome Dove. It is not much more than a good tall tale, dust glowing in the sunset after horsemen have passed by. But McMurtry found a way to retell the worn old western stories of lawmen and gunmen. The grubby, lonely, smelly God-awfulness of the Old West fascinated him, and he raised it to the level of myth, used it to paint his scenery. It is no accident that Lonesome Dove begins, "When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake--not a very big one ... 'You pigs git,' Augustus said, kicking...