Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will be looking to peak in two weeks against Western Ontario," Ben Shachar said. "It is a very big match...
Some economists argue that opening trade with China will make it more competitive in global markets. But what will happen to the western farming provinces, whose technologies date back to the turn of the century? It's unlikely that the decision-makers in the east will worry much about the fate of hundreds of millions of voiceless peasants; President Suharto and his government probably don't think too much about the economic well-being of the people of East Timor...
This is not good enough for human-rights advocates in the U.S. Deborah Leipziger, of the Council on Economic Priorities in New York City, rejects the argument often heard in Asia that Americans are trying to impose Western standards in order to make Asian products less competitive. "I don't buy it," she says, "because there are universal standards of human rights." < Child labor should be banned, and there should be an international standard for calculating fair wages, she says. More specifically, Sidney Jones of Human Rights Watch/Asia insists American executives ought to protest to the Indonesian government about...
...dafter masterpieces of Western art, rich in overreach, Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen is an obvious target for takeoffs of all sorts. The latest is Das Barbecu, which arrived last week off-Broadway after having been developed in several regional theater productions. Concentrating on the last opera, Gotterdammerung, the show is set in oil-rich Texas. Not a bad idea: like Valhalla, Texas was built by the iron whim of wealthy men. Jim Luigs, who wrote the book and lyrics, sees the gods as feuding, singing cowboys. Five exceedingly busy people manage to rush through 30 parts...
...idea first came up at a Moscow lunch: What if an American correspondent were to accompany Russia's most flamboyant political firebrand on his very first visit to the U.S.? The proposal seemed intriguing, since it came from the Liberal Democratic Party, which normally views Western journalists as foreign agents. My contact stressed that Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the party's leader, had approved the idea...