Over the past decade, Texas alone has added 180, 000 mostly high-paying energy-related jobs, Oklahoma another 40, 000, and the Intermountain West well over 30, 000.
Exxon Mobil walked away from its Blackbeard West well when temperatures and pressures became so great that there was fear in the corporate headquarters of another Exxon Valdez type of environmental catastrophe.
The well-off west well-off, ironically, thanks to foreign investment favoured Fidesz.
Policy makers feel the problems won't really end, until they end in the west as well.
"Prairie Lullaby" is the work of Billy Hill, whose career straddled the old West as well as Broadway.
Will there be a barrier to the east of the West Bank as well as to the west?
The West might well be the bigger loser in this economic warfare if it is barred from accessing new, growing markets.
Mr Alckmin swept the south and the centre-west as well as winning his home state, which accounts for nearly a quarter of the electorate.
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President Mugabe and his inner circle are the target of international sanctions which involve travel bans and restrict them from doing business in the West as well as curbing non-humanitarian financial aid to Zimbabwe.
But in the second half a double from new African Player of the year Drogba, either side of a Florent Malouda strike, took him to 27 for the season and left West Ham well-beaten.
Mr Stoiber's attacks seem sure to cost the CDU votes in the east, and maybe in the west as well, because people will worry that there will be further infighting if the conservatives win power.
He clashed with Cornel West, a well known black professor, over Mr West's commitment to academic research.
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The breakdown of law and order, in the West Bank as well as Gaza, is increasingly plain.
Perhaps most importantly, Allen West has a well-calibrated and utterly dependable moral compass.
Hamas is strong in the West Bank as well as Gaza and could easily blow up any deal it did not like.
West Ham were well on top by now and the unsighted Hart did well to push away Hayden Mullins's curling shot soon afterwards.
Scotland's cricketers took part in the World Cup in the West Indies as well as in the inaugural Twenty20 tournament in South Africa.
Second, the Islamist movement in the United States and the West is a well-organized and funded fifth column and must be treated as such.
He also owns oil refineries in Morocco and Sweden and oil fields off west Africa as well as a 70% stake in the National Oil Company of Ethiopia.
Tiger Global Management, a New York hedge fund that is also a shareholder in DST, has already specialised in investing in start-ups beyond the West's well-known technology clusters.
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The stage will then be set for the ultimate defeat of Fatah by Hamas in the West Bank as well, putting all of Israel within range of its weapons.
Of course, we are now seeing speculation that the Cline Shale formation in West Texas may well contain more oil than the Eagle Ford, so that distinction could be short-lived.
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But many Israelis say that quitting Gaza is the thin end of a wedge that will eventually lever Israel out of much or all of the West Bank as well.
Mr Yeltsin, for all his faults, had a gut commitment to democracy, freedom of the press and friendship with the West, as well as a healthy distrust of the security services.
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Dredd was written by Alex Garland, who had previously written one of my favorite video game screenplays, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, as well as the zombie apocalypse movie, 28 Days Later.
The US defence secretary added that officials were planning to leave troops in all sectors of the country - north, south, east and west - as well as in the capital, Kabul.
After a couple of days spent chugging through the landscapes of the Old West, the well-worn travel adage about the journey being as important as the destination starts to sound a lot less trite.
At their arraignment, Robertson's attorney Jerome Murphy asked the judge to enact a gag order on the secretary of the Army, Togo West, as well as the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, saying the top officials had made their clients seem guilty before they were tried.
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