Based on what we have learned, it is likely Jim is being held with one or more Western journalists, including most likely at least one other American.
For a quarter of a century or more, the Western response to terrorism has been extraordinarily restrained.
The European view is trade with them, invest in them and encourage them to be more tolerant or pro-western.
But it is at last possible to see more or less how the western world's reorganised arms industry is going to look now that the cold war is over.
But the House report falls well short of convincing me that either possesses or will deploy cyber weapons of mass destruction against critical U.S. infrastructure or that they are any more hazardous than Western companies utilizing the same or similar supply chains that traverse China or any other country for that matter.
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Soviet bloc countries should obtain no more favorable terms on or access to Western financial flows than those offered fledgling democracies in the developing world.
Even "reforming" Soviet bloc countries should obtain no more favorable terms on or access to Western financial flows than those offered fledgling democracies in the developing world.
Thus Turkey may be able to attract investment from equally or more corrupt nations, such as Russia or Ukraine, but not from western Europe or north America.
In more recent years, tolerant Western nations have increasingly succumbed to stealthy jihadism, backed by more or less direct threats of violence.
Are we witnessing a commercial real estate bubble in emerging markets, people, or is this just more evidence that the Western world has lost its lure?
As the first governor of Utah he preferred the Mormon name Deseret he ruled more or less alone over a huge chunk of Western territory, including a lot of what is today Wyoming, Colorado, and Nevada.
Equally though it should be apparent that the world is less stable than it was, say at the time of that 1977 fleet review, and that the ability of the UK or the Western family of nations more widely, to shape world events is sharply diminished.
More or less in the middle is the young, Western-minded king of Jordan.
Hopefully the recent blitzkrieg drove that fact home for most Western journalists, or at least more of them than before.
He says the parts of a dead eagle can easily fetch a thousand dollars or more on a black market that stretches from western Canada to Florida.
Still, even if the police in western Turkey are getting more careful (or perhaps more devious), in the south-east it seems that their methods against Kurdish suspects are as harsh as ever.
For many, the knee-jerk response has been to speak against women travelling alone, labelling it as shocking or unwise, especially in more conservative cultures where Western women travelling alone can face unjust stereotypes regarding promiscuity.
As society becomes more segregated by age, he points out, some council estates now have ratios of adults to hormone-heavy adolescent males more typical of violent Yemen or Somalia than of developed Western countries.
Communist China arguably has no better or more powerful friend in the whole of the Western world than the man President Bush has just appointed to be this nation's chief financial officer: Henry Paulson.
Not as acute as those faced by other rich countries, to be sure America's high rates of fertility and immigration ensure that its population will age more slowly than say, those of Western Europe or Japan.
As they are asked once more to assume substantial financial exposure to assist the more destitute regimes of Eastern Europe, Western taxpayers should keep in mind one fact: the current economic crisis in Poland has been deepened by undisciplined Western largesse over the past fifteen years or more.
As they are asked once more to assume substantial financial exposure in order to assist the more destitute regimes of Eastern Europe, Western taxpayers should keep in mind one fact: the current economic crisis in Poland has been deepened by undisciplined Western largesse over the past fifteen years or more.
They explain China without the constant angst of which parent it more resembles: its top-down national government or its managerially minded western influences.
From my perspective a Russia ruled by Putin is much more accommodating of Western interests than a Russia ruled by the communists or hard-core nationalists would be.
The decorative flourishes in the Chinese-themed rooms--silk pillows, framed lotus flower prints, armoires made of mappa burl wood or sycamore--make them a touch more interesting than the Western rooms, but nothing feels particularly revelatory.
All the over-the-top action and melodrama is so much more fun when you view the whole thing as a Spaghetti Western, or a Dirty Harry movie.
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Fully private institutions (in the Ohio context, schools like Case Western Reserve University or Kenyon College) are not all that more efficient than their public counterparts.
They need simply run out the clock for a few more months, which can be accomplished with or without further conversations demeaning their feckless Western interlocutors.
Unlike the more developed Western markets in which many private equity firms focus on leveraged buyouts or similar deals, emerging markets require a more hands-on approach with the family-run firms that dominate these economies, he says.
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