Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WESTERN CONFERENCE Midwest W L Pct. GB L10Streak Home Away Conf. Utah 48 18 .727 -- 8-2 L125-7 23-11 25-15 San Antonio 45 18 .710 1.5 8-2W4 27-7 18-11 27-11 Houston 40 24 .625 7 5-5 W 5 22-10 18-14 20-17 Denver 31 33 .484 16 8-2 W 2 19-13 12-20 19-21 Dallas 26 37 .413 20.5 5-5W1 14-19 12-18 16-24 Minnesota 19 47 .288 29 4-6W2 12-21 7-26 11-29 Pacific...
...That, Western officials fear, would jeopardize the safety of U.N. forces in neighboring Bosnia, reignite the fighting there and set off a general conflagration that could bring Serbia directly into the war. The consequences of the U.N. withdrawal "could trigger the most dangerous situation Europe has seen since 1945," says Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State who is leading the effort to keep the U.N. forces in place...
...total intelligence product that goes to the President comes from public sources," such as cnn, unclassified foreign- government documents and business reports. The Russian government, which once classified crop yields and factory output as state secrets, now routinely publishes those figures on the Internet to entice Western investors. Resistance groups in countries like Iran put information on international computer networks that agency case officers once had to obtain from underground newspapers inside the nation. Movements of nuclear weapons-related equipment can sometimes be tracked by monitoring the electronic bulletin boards of shipping companies. "The information is out there," says Henry...
Freemen and militias are only extreme examples of an antifederalist insurgency spreading in Western states-one that takes up legal briefs as well as arms and is quite willing to flout the law. Emboldened by the Republican takeover of Congress, a growing number of ordinary citizens, as well as local and state government officials, are rejecting federal authority and fighting for what they believe are their property rights. Last week the Justice Department filed a lawsuit seeking to stop Nye County in Nevada from taking over federal lands and intimidating federal officials. Associate Attorney General John Schmidt said the Justice...
...count, some 75 counties have already adopted or are considering measures that contest federal rights over public land within their borders. The new push for local land control resembles the Sagebrush Rebellion of the 1970s, when Westerners fought the Federal Government over land-use issues. The new drive, however, is better organized and more widely supported. The Western States Coalition, founded only 13 months ago, advocates local land control and has the support of hundreds of county and state officials and private interest groups. The coalition is pushing to give ranchers and others greater access to federal lands...