Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With military help from neighboring countries, Georgian government regulars and rebel forces have each scored important victories against the other. Using Russian-supplied T-72 tanks and personnel, troops loyal to Georgian leader Eduard Shevardnadze drove the rebels into their last redoubt, in the western region of the republic. But with the help of reinforcements from Abkhazia, the separatists staged a powerful counteroffensive, recapturing an important town...
...effort to avoid laying off even more workers, Volkswagen's management board proposed a four-day workweek for its 108,000 workers at six western German factories -- and a wage...
...slated for examination every three months has not been seen for more than a year. Last August, when IAEA officials visited the plutonium-reprocessing plant at Yongbyon, they were allowed in only at night, with all the lights turned off, peering through the 600-ft. building with what one Western official described as "weak flashlights" provided by their hosts. After that, says the official, "Blix came back and vowed 'never again.' They have to allow full inspections with no more horses...
...years have positively seethed with charming, Toujours Provence-like depictions of the rustic life of those quaint foreign folk. Authors tend to subscribe to the crude narrative conventions of culture clash and nation of contrasts, where faraway lands seduce the reader with their irrational, undeveloped, unhurried, unchanging, quintessentially un-Western ways. And readers, doubtless locked in urban sprawl and economic recession, have lapped up such escapist literature with alacrity...
...Western Front. 343 Western Ave., Cambridge. 492-7772. Danny Tucker on Thursday, Nov. 4. SWAMMP on Friday, Nov. 5 and Saturday...