Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...outrageous weather limited to North America. Hailstones the size of tennis balls last week bombarded France, a country whose precious vacation time has been marred of late by blazing springs, cool summers and snowless ski slopes. Farmers in western Queensland, Australia, are currently suffering through the state's longest and most widespread drought. New Delhi recorded ^ its hottest day in more than 40 years in June; Rome last week had its hottest day of this century. Torrential rains have become so severe in Hong Kong that meteorologists coined a new term -- black rainstorm alert -- to signal their approach. Weather-related...
...false start with its on-again-off-again effort to raise the fees businesses pay for such activities as mining and cattle grazing on federal land. Those proposals were originally part of Clinton's budget plan, but the President backed away from the idea after members of Congress from Western states squawked. Babbitt sees the setback as a temporary retreat and vows to raise land-use fees gradually through administrative actions and support for legislation...
With the end of the cold war, the world's challenges are no less important or difficult, but they are murkier and more intractable. For a brief, triumphal moment, Western democratic capitalism seemed to have defeated all comers. Such elation was quickly replaced by a realization that the world's hardships and hatreds were hardly diminished by the end of the cold war. Standing up to the Soviets, while a daunting task and perhaps one oversimplified at the time, was in some ways less tricky than sorting out the collapse of Yugoslavia or dealing with a persistently sluggish global economy...
BONN -- The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service has handed over a list of about 2,000 names, mostly coded, of western Germans who once served as spies for East Germany's secret police, the infamous Stasi. Experts say some are likely to be prominent figures in politics and industry. "There will be some big scandals. Some names are well known," says a Bundestag source. Chancellor Helmut Kohl, in power since well before unification, may have something to worry about: 19 years ago, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt was forced to resign after just one spy was discovered in his chancellery...
...commanders, cannot shoot unless fired upon or intervene even when they witness / atrocities. Britain and France, who supply most of the manpower, have resisted serious military steps against the Serbs for fear of reprisals against their soldiers, making the blue helmets more like hostages than enforcers of international law. Western nations could never reach agreement that Bosnian carnage affected their vital interests and so could not make a credible threat of force. Last week Clinton underscored the ultimate irrelevance of the U.N. mission in Bosnia by virtually abandoning its government. The U.S., he said, would live with the country...