Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...waits alone outside an after-hours club after being rejected by the bouncer. She attempts to ward off his advances by affecting the stereotypically demure, non-English speaking attitude of a Chinese-born girl. When his persistence charms her, her switch of persona back to her Western personality is sharp enough to cleverly echo the polar extremes that the movie is trying to demonstrate...
...WESTERN CONFERENCE Central W L T Pts GF GA Home Away Div. x-Detroit 31 8 4 66 169 10 0 16-3-3 15-5-1 15-3-2 x-St .Louis 26 12 5 57 164 12016-5-2 10-7-3 13-7-3 Toronto 19 18 7 45 121 131 14-7-2 5-11-5 10-10-4 Chicago 20 19 5 45 139 111 8-10-3 12-9-2 4-13-4 Dallas 17 20 8 42 132 1239-10-5 8-10-3 8-13-1 Winnipeg...
...What we were trying to do was use militarypressure to move the North Vietnamese tonegotiations," he continued. Some in theadministration, he said, felt losing Vietnam wouldmean a catastrophe for the western world, perhapsWorld War III. McNamara said he now believes theywere wrong...
...second issue was more difficult: did U.S.actions in Indochina, he asked, contribute to thesecurity of the western world, or were they acostly failure...
...Russian officials includingPresident Boris Yeltsinannounced plans to form acentrist political movementto combat what they see as political extremism that has hobbled Western-style reforms. "Russia has had enough revolutions," Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin said today in Moscow. "Russia is our home and we must make every effort to ensure stability and restore order in it." The move underscores Yeltsin's shift away from the liberal forces that brought him to power, and at the same time snubs both pro- and anti-Western extremists who have dominated the Russian parliament for two years...