The distinctions between east and west are becoming far less evident, both socially and economically.
Large purchasers in the West are increasingly requiring customers and suppliers to deal with them online.
Satellite television and music from the West are also having an impact on the youthful population.
Even those trained in the West are beginning to despair at the scale of the disaster.
Nor is it certain that the asbestos substitutes now used in the West are safe.
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The Wicked Witches of the East and West are, respectively, played by Rachel Weisz and Mila Kunis.
Aberconwy and Clwyd West are the two target seats Labour will be looking to win from the Conservatives.
My personal experience tells me that the differences between the East and West are more complementary rather than contradictory.
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The first nanoshells made by Dr West are designed to absorb infra-red light.
Councils in the South West are trying to reduce the amount of waste going into landfill which has to be paid for.
But a large number of centrist Democrats representing conservative districts in the South and the mountain West are also likely to lose.
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The armies of the west are valorous, but they are relatively few.
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But other resorts in the South West are actively targeting gay visitors.
But the two main challenges for the West are long-term political ones.
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The South and West are likely to continue to add congressional districts lost by the Northeast and Midwest after the 2010 congressional apportionment.
It should be obvious to business leaders and political leaders alike that developed countries in the West are no longer the only game in town.
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It is estimated that three out of 10 people in the south west are in 'water poverty', with bills costing more than 3% of their income.
Some eighty central bankers from both the East and West are meeting behind closed doors this week in Basel, Switzerland at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).
That's because the waters to the south and west are among the most unpolluted in the world--ideal for catching not only tuna but also oysters, mussels and lobsters.
To the west are the saw-edges of glacier-encrusted rock and ice, serrated by more than 30 jagged peaks heavy with snow, the highest of which is 6, 768m-high Huascaran, the tallest mountain in the tropics.
Part-time volunteers, who in the West are often middle-class people who want to help out in their spare time and are often the mainstay of charities, are all but unknown in Russia.
"Five thousand nursing jobs have been lost since the election, zero hours contracts are being introduced and these draconian steps in the South West are a sign of the growing panic engulfing the NHS".
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Director of the Pew Forum for Religion and Public Life, Luis Lugo, says there was very little support for the notion that differences between Islam and the West are so fundamental they cannot be bridged.
But the fact that Russia and the West are talking, rather than rattling sabres at each other, must disappoint those in Belgrade still hoping that Russia will switch from passive to active support of the Serb cause.
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Many best practices for recognition can be gleaned from a company that many in the west are unfamiliar with, Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces, which operates 93 luxury hotels across India and 16 other hotels in other parts of the world.
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