Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...totaled $17 million last year and whose membership across the nation has grown to 40,000. And the mainstreaming of gays isn't confined to New York City and Los Angeles: 21-year-olds are coming out everywhere, so that, for instance, a gay freshman landing this fall at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo or at the University of Idaho in Moscow could find a group to join. In little Agency, Mo. (pop. 300), a woman named Liz Jalbert is president of Midland Empire Task Force, a gay group that has doubled in size, to nearly 100 paid members...
...will be an indirect economic benefit for these countries from their increased sense of security, much more tangible is money (on the order of billions of dollars) NATO will provide to modernize their armies. The nations' defense ministries will then spend this money buying arms from American and other western defense firms. Is it likely the American defense industry would try to influence American foreign policy for its own benefit, to the detriment of the interests of the American people...
...economically hurt by it. However, the State Department seems to treat the former Yugoslavia only in terms of the Serb leader, Slobodan Milosevic, to whose impudently hostile policies it reacts by increasing the hostile stance of the United States. The resulting impression of a nation embattled against a huge Western power, with one man courageous enough to oppose that power, benefits that one man immensely--the same man whose policies are so abhorrent...
...WESTERN CONFERENCE Central W L T Pts GF GA Home Away Div Detroit 4 1 0 8 15 7 3 -0-0 1-1-0 2-0-0 Chicago 3 2 0 6 12 13 2-1-0 1-1-0 0-0-0 St. Louis 2 2 1 5 13 13 0- 1-0 2-1-1 0-0-1 Nashville 1 3 1 3 8 131-1-0 0-2-1 0-1-01 Northwest W L T Pts GF GA Home Away Div Vancouver...
...know the difference between an Eastern and a Western backhand? How about a pulsus bisferiens and a pulsus paradoxus? Have you ever considered relating an Eastern backhand to a pulsus paradoxus, and then using that relationship as a metaphor for the complexities of human existence? "Why would you want to" might be the more pertinent question, but for Abraham Verghese, such metaphors tell his story...