One of my continual beefs with our western world is our overemphasis on numerical and statistical methods in analysis.

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The Fair Labor Association was established in 1998, after the Western world discovered that much of our apparel and footwear was being manufactured in appalling working conditions in Asian factories.

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Nonetheless, given the strong attachment of today's Poland to modernity and the western world, I asked one of our hosts why the VIP fleet still used aircraft from the Soviet era.

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Also, America intervened in two world wars when our vital interests were at stake -- stopping Germany from conquering Western Europe in 1917 and stopping Japan and Germany from conquering the world in 1941.

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And let me tell you very sincerely, do you think that we don't have enough on our plate to do without spending time to have our pictures taken, what with the unemployment rate in France, the United States, the Western world, what with the Iranian issues?

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Because of the security NATO provided and our push for liberal political and economic policies, western Europe and Japan made stunningly rapid recoveries from the rubble of World War II.

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