Word: westernness
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...qualify for the ballot. One of the more exotic hybrids was formed by Lyudmila Vartazarova, a grandmother of four whose strategy involved merging her Socialist Party of the Working People, based in Moscow, with a group of Cossack monarchists from the south, a loose coalition of oil executives from western Siberia and a group from the northern republic of Karelia. The resulting clash of ideologies ignited dissent among reform- minded supporters, eventually robbing Vartazarova's Fatherland Alliance of a place on the ballot...
Critics consider that to be throwing good money after bad. The proposal to revitalize Eisenhuttenstadt has run into stiff opposition from the western German steel industry, the European Commission in Brussels, and E.C. countries, which must unanimously approve new state subsidies -- at a time when Europe's steel industry as a whole is awash in excess capacity and red ink. Italy wants to salvage 2,000 of 5,800 imperiled jobs at Taranto, in the impoverished Mezzogiorno, while Spain is struggling to cushion the blow in the politically troubled Basque region, where 9,700 steelworkers are targeted for dismissal...
...support it -- taxes average more than 40% of gross domestic product, vs. only 30% in Japan and the U.S. -- are not sufficient to prevent big budget deficits in many countries. Welfare expenses are soaring because the prolonged recession, the worst since the early 1970s, is pushing joblessness across Western Europe toward 12%, or 23 million people...
...runs by environmental jokers. Hard-rock mining (for gold, copper, silver and other metals) once ruled the Rocky Mountain states. The industry is foreign-dominated now (18 of the 25 largest gold mines in the country are owned by non-U.S. firms, most of them Canadian). Only one Western job in 1,000 is directly tied to metal mining. But mining interests have not lost the knack of command, nor have most Rocky Mountain legislators lost the habit of subservience. Attempts in Congress to reform the key U.S. law, passed in 1872 and not substantially revised for hard-rock...
Much of the new support for the assault-gun ban came from Senators representing Midwestern and Western states that are strongholds of the once invulnerable National Rifle Association. Colorado Democrat Ben Nighthorse Campbell and Montana Democrat Max Baucus, longtime NRA supporters, both voted...