While hitchhiking was clearly still alive and well in some places, the general feeling was that throughout much of the west it was doomed.

尽管搭便车在某些地方仍然很盛行，但在西方大部分地区，人们普遍认为搭便车是注定要失败的。

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Moral as well as financial support is what the West should provide.

道义上和经济上的支持是西方国家应该提供的。

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They are most commonly found in Europe, Africa and East and West Asia, as well as the Americas.

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and then we have the nationals where we compete with the schools on the West Coast as well.

然后我们有全国赛，我们也跟西海岸的学校比。

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and the West Side is very like, lots of artists, still very cool, I think as well.

而我同样认为，上西区像许多艺术家一样，仍然很酷。

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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.

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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.

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"Prairie Lullaby" is the work of Billy Hill, whose career straddled the old West as well as Broadway.

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