Word: westing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...breaststroke: 1. B. Trop (N) 2:11.89; 2. R. Wimmer (N) 2:16.73; 3. Jack Ewing (H) 2:17.00; Exhibition: David Lundberg (H) 2:07.45--Harvard University record. Old record by Ted Fullerton '77 at West Point, N.Y., March...
...acting Foreign Minister and Finance Minister. His quiet manner, spectacles and Charlie Chaplin mustache belie a deep-rooted fierce economic radicalism. An economist who studied at the Sorbonne, Banisadr says Iranian foreign policy has "a single objective: freedom from economic, cultural and political dependence on the West." He adds: "There are two things you can do-fight or rot. I prefer to fight...
...largest concentration of Iranian students is in the West and Southwest, where they often study engineering and petroleum-related subjects. The percentage of Iranians at some schools is surprisingly high. At Texas Southern University there are 900 Iranians out of a student body of 10,000. At the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, an enrollment of 28,000 includes 900 Iranians. Woodbury University in Los Angeles has 700 Iranians among 1,400 students...
...they say East and West shall never meet...
...existence of an alternative embodied in America is crucial. But unfortunately, due to the restrictive conditions in Romania, very few people have access to material, information and ideas coming from the West. "Students are cut off from European culture and civilization which has been the traditional form of evolution in Romania," he says, adding that "stagnation and indoctrination are taking hold." Yet today the average Romanian scholar is unable to travel or study abroad...