Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Michigan (12-1-1) became the first team this year to garner all 27 first-place votes on the strength of a two-game sweep of Western Michigan. And the two Hockey East powerhouses? BU swept Merrimack to leap up and claim the second spot in the nation, while pesky Northeastern split two with Maine and dropped the Black Bears two slots to fourth...
...that Fidel's system needs only modest tinkering. A grizzled mine worker warns against any changes that bring back inequality. Reporters are invited into the country, but top officials decline interviews: they no longer seem to know what the party line is. "There is a new incoherence," says a Western diplomat in Havana. "It's not pluralism, but different people have different ideas about where the country should...
...vast majority of the population," says a Western diplomat, "is sitting and waiting until the situation is resolved for them." In the streets of Havana there is little proto-capitalist bustle. The government says 86,000 people out of Cuba's 11 million have applied for the required license, but it is not easy to find the new mom-and-pop enterprises. Canadian mining executive Bill McGuinty thinks his Cuban co-workers are eager to learn capitalist ways -- up to a point. They are shocked by his attempts to bypass bureaucracy and befuddled by the quid pro quos of networking...
...visitor can miss the real hatred Cubans express for their countrymen in Miami -- despised for fleeing, feared for their threats to take back their property, blamed for the U.S. embargo that prevents Cuba from seeking assistance from friendlier Western nations. "We will never accept a government dictated by Miami," says Sanchez...
...capital's cityscape is bleak. "Havana is absolutely empty at night. There are no cars, no lights and no people on the streets, except for prostitutes," McGeary says. Yet most Cubans refuse to lose hope. Their vitality is what adds so much intrigue to the unfolding saga of the western hemisphere's last remaining Communist outpost...