Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gerhard Schroder is the latest edition to a growing collection of good-looking and affable political leaders of Western democratic nations. He defeated a 300-pound man, Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who had spent 16 years in office, the longest period of single rule in Germany since Otto von Bismarck's reign over a century...
...richest in Pakistan, yet its members fork out only a pittance in taxes. The armed forces, which have a habit of intervening in Pakistani politics, are displeased with the Prime Minister, and some analysts fear that Nawaz Sharif's actions may increase friction between the pro-Western secularists and religious extremists within the ranks. Warns Maleeha Lodi, a newspaper editor and former ambassador to Washington: "Nawaz Sharif is trying to wrap himself in Islam. Perhaps he doesn't know that this will drive deeper wedges into a society that's already badly fragmented...
...more immediate problem is cost. Even at wholesale, Arava carries a price tag of about $3,000 for a year's treatment, and Enbrel could go for up to $10,000. Blood filtration might come in as high as $25,000. "It's expensive," admits Chad Deal of Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, who participated in clinical trials of the blood-filtration system. "But the 10% to 20% of patients who aren't responding to other treatments are miserable, and their joints are still eroding." Given the alternative--and, with any luck, given reasonable insurance coverage--it's easy...
...Western countries cannot trust Russia and must never give it billions and billions of dollars. Why? Because Russia is so unreliable. We must not forget how Soviet power worked in our century. Soviet communism murdered 49 million people under a regime of terror, concentration camps and hunger. We Finns, especially, will never forget what an unmasked Russia is. ANTTI PEKOLA Pori, Finland...
...lively, fascinating tales of his hero's Siberian grandmother, then wavered into lifeless self-absorption in a present-day section set in France. His quirky, likable new novel returns to rural Siberia in the 1970s, where three clueless teenage boys try to make sense of rumored wonders: women, the Western world, adulthood. Their unlikely guide is the ultra-cool French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, one of whose films is playing in a town 20 miles away on a river called Amur (Russian for Cupid). Though the boys live in a backwater where spit freezes before it hits the ground...