Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There he had set up a required course for all first year students that focused on "great works" of Western civilization, covering topics within social sciences, philosophy, natural sciences, religion and the arts...
Bell Telephone System placed a series of adsdetailing their contribution to the war effort,including analyzing captured materials, supplyingphones for warships and laying down combattelephone wires. Western Electric rancomplementary...
...When U.S. Warships go into action, telephoneequipment transmits orders instantly, clearly,"one ad read. "For the huge battleship Wisconsin,Western Electric supplied two systems usingequipment designed by Bell TelephoneLaboratories...
...their eye -- even as they pursue detente with the island's regime and ardently court Taiwan investment and trade. China's leaders are wondering whether Clinton was signaling both a reversal of 23 years of Sino-American rapprochement and a precedent for other countries, including Japan, to follow. A Western diplomat in Beijing remarked, "I think what is of concern to them is less the specific development than where such a development could lead...
Bosnian Serbs detained more than 200 U.N. peacekeepers and chained a number of them to probable nato targets as human shields to protect against further attack by NATO warplanes. Two days of air strikes by Western allies had damaged Serbian munitions dumps, located little more than a mile outside the Bosnian Serb mountaintop headquarters at Pale. The Bosnian Serbs also bombarded five out of six U.N.- declared "safe haven" cities in Bosnia, killing 71 people in the northern town of Tuzla alone. The air strikes, the first since November, were ordered after Bosnian Serbs ignored an ultimatum to return heavy...