Unions were at the peak of their power, strikes wracked most western economies, and inflationary forces prowled the land.
Ironically, says Rob Cunningham, Christian Aid's programme manager for South Africa, just as the word is taking off in Western society the values it embodies are in decline in the land of its origin.
New crofts will help to tackle historic population decline on the Western Isles, the chairman of a community land trust has said.
Not far from Corleone, in the rolling hills of western Sicily, there is a farming co-operative set up on land confiscated from the Mafia.
Those who fled to the South Western peninsula (cern in Celtic or cornu in Latin) lived in Corn-wall - the foreign land on England's horn.
The decision to land in Turkey was a consequence of the lack of success by Britain and its allies on the western front in France.
More than 20 companies - including Jaguar Land Rover and Great Western Hospitals - attended the fair in Swindon.
As part of the price of Western recognition for their independence, Kosovo's leaders agreed that their land should have room for non-Albanian minorities.
As American military vehicles and troops start to arrive in Bosnia -- taking a 30-kilometer (20-mile) road toward Tuzla that they've dubbed "Route Arizona" -- some are setting up a series of small bases in the Posavina Corridor, a narrow neck of land connecting Serb territories in eastern and western Bosnia.
Now they are trying to settle on 127 hectares (313 acres) of land provided by the government on the outskirts of Ricaurte, a small town in the south-western province of Narino.
If a legal Russian business uses a criminally owned company to bribe an official in order to land its revenues legally (by Russian standards) in a western bank, how guilty is the banker under, say, English law, for taking the deposit?
The Earth does not have enough clean water, good pasture land or even livable space along coasts to have everyone in, say, the poorer areas of western China and central India living and driving the way we do in, say, northern Virginia.
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