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His refined black - and - white photographs document scenes of the American West of the past four decades, revealing the impact of human activity on the last vestiges of wilderness and open space.

Called In Need of a Good Wife, this book takes place in the American West of the 19th century and stars Clara Bixby, a woman who works as a broker of mail - order brides.

With the American West of the post-Civil War period as the backdrop, the book delves into the displacement of Native Americans by a host of government edicts.

This is the crux of Andrew Haigh's rivetingly beautiful new film, which screened at the Venice Film Festival this morning, and finds the British director working on a brighter, broader canvas than ever before: a present - day American West of drab diners, grumbling trucks, and starlit open desert.

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In the American West of pioneer days, mothers made all their children's diapers from available materials.

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Simone Askew is the first African - American woman to hold the position of First Captain of West Point's Corps of Cadets.

Americans love the mystique of the Wild West, and we frequently glamorize the lawless and unpredictable.

According to the DEA, the US heroin market was historically divided between the area west of the Mississippi River, where Mexican - produced black - tar heroin was used, and the area east of the river, where South American - produced white - powder heroin was used.

Shortly thereafter, the two took off on an 18 - month exploration of the American West, whereupon the shaggy - haired toddler «climbed Salvation Mountain, went into the chutes at the Cody Night Rodeo, visited the markets of the Navajo Nation and cruised the Las Vegas strip,» according to the Hueys.

«This knee - high perspective of desert dwellers and tumble weeds was a new addition to the tradition of documenting the American West,» Aaron says.

West Perth - based Liquefied Natural Gas Ltd has tapped investors for a $ 174 million capital raising to fund ongoing development of its two North American LNG projects.

He gained a foothold out west, meanwhile, with the 2008 purchase of Canadian rights to American banner Taco Time.

In early March, as rebels fought for control of the country's east coast ports, where much of the country's oil is refined or shipped abroad, the price of the American crude contract (West Texas Intermediate, or WTI) broke US$ 100 for the first time since 2008.

The area underlying Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia is the epicenter of a boom in American natural gas produced through hydraulic fracturing, the process of injecting water, minerals and chemicals underground to free oil and gas from rock formations.

«In a year where politicians traffic in anti-immigrant rhetoric, there is also a Broadway musical reminding us that a broke, orphan immigrant from the West Indies built our financial system, a story that reminds us that since the beginning of the great unfinished symphony that is our American experiment, time and time again, immigrants get the job done.»

Many Americans» first encounter with Kanye West was in September 2005, when he appeared on NBC's «A Concert for Hurricane Relief,» to benefit victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Brent, the ocean - going tanker standard, shot up to US$ 116 on fears of supply disruptions, even as West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the North American benchmark, had not yet crossed the $ 100 threshold.

As a result, according to a survey conducted last year by Focus Research Systems Inc. of West Hartford, Conn., less than 7 % of American small businesses (those with fewer than 500 employees or less than $ 25 million in sales) used on - site computers.

Pam Locke, who serves as Askew's mentor, was one of two African - American women to graduate from West Point's first class of women in 1980.

The book is a record of his attempt to realize the New American Dream, as modeled by Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg: moving out West and founding a successful startup.

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It is famous in American culture for its history as a frontier town of the Wild West.

Over the past five years the price of west Texas crude, the primary American benchmark for oil, has yo - yoed from US$ 60 a barrel to US$ 145 in 2008, all the way back down to US$ 30 during the recession, then up again to US$ 114, before settling this year around US$ 100.

Louisiana has long been notorious for flooding, and Arizona renowned for triple - digit heat, and wildfires have always been an iconic part of the American West.

The Trump administration wants to ease restrictions on oil and gas leasing and other activities across a huge swath of the American West that were put in place to protect an imperiled bird.

After trading as low as US$ 27 a barrel in mid-February, the price of West Texas Intermediate, a grade of light, sweet crude used as a North American benchmark, is closing in on US$ 50 a barrel in the wake of several supply outages around the globe and renewed optimism in some quarters about a re-balancing of a previously over-supplied market.

Taliban fighters who spoke to Maclean's in the volatile district of Panjwai, 30 km west of Kandahar city, also concede that the Canadian presence in Kandahar was better than the Americans, although their reasoning is based more on military considerations than humanitarian.

The river's clean waters serve as the wellspring in what has steadily become one of the storied confrontations over energy development, justice, finance, and human rights in the American West.

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Backed by the Koch brothers and their American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, legislators across the American West, where most of the public lands are located, are calling on the federal government to cede control and management of them to counties and states.

With so many of the world's largest exchanges moving to the West, that should benefit European and American cryptocurrency investors.

While most of the North American regions defined by research firm fDi markets (Northeast, South, Midwest, West and all of Canada) won between 200 and 500 foreign direct investment projects, worth between $ 10 billion and $ 15 billion in total capital, between January and late September 2014, the southern US won 1014 projects, worth $ 34 billion, according to fDi Markets.

I often joke, Americans still have mentality of the «Wild West» in their blood, it's just that they ride cars, SUV's and planes instead of horses now...

But in the last decades American Christians, like Christians across the West, have faced a rising trend of what Pope Francis has termed «polite persecution.»

While today's televised depictions of the White House tend toward the pessimistic (Scandal and House of Cards) The West Wing is not only a rosier view of American politics, but an altogether more compelling one.

Its first choice was George Brown, a black West Indian who is president of the Inter-American Division — which consists of the Latin American countries from Mexico to Venezuela plus all the Caribbean countries — but he declined the post.

In a recent interview regarding America, Israel, and the wider Middle East, Malcolm Hoenlein, the long - serving head of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, spoke out unequivocally against the persecution of Christians around the world and the West's....

But far from being a drudgery of a read, this exploration of The Great Migration (the movement of African Americans out of the Southern United States to the Midwest, Northeast and West between 1915 and 1970) is a total page - turner, full of fascinating characters, gut - wrenching stories, exciting twists and turns, and a lively elucidation of an epic chapter of American history that few of us have deeply considered and which still affects our world today.

His first two novels, Desperadoes and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, are inventive retellings of myths of the American West.

Or, a letter to the national office of groups like The Family Service Association of America (44 East 23rd Street, New York, New York 10010), American Association of Marriage and Family Counselors (6211 West Northwest Highway, Dallas, Texas 75219), or The American Association of Pastoral Counselors (201 East 19th Street, New York, New York 10003), will get information regarding the nearest treatment agencies.

(Information about well - trained marriage and family counselors can be obtained by writing The American Association of Marriage and Family Counselors, 225 Yale Ave., Claremont, CA 91711, or The American Association of Pastoral Counselors, 3 West 29th St., New York, NY 10001)

It would be an interesting study to see to what extent this has resulted from the influence upon the West of Asian religions, although in the USA, Native American spirituality has also been influential.

With the breakdown of communism in Eastern Europe, we may well see a rekindling in the West of the liberal myth of progress — to the extent that it ever died in the American heart.

In their 1776 - 1990 Atlas of American Religion (Altamira, 2000), Halvorson and Newman document what we all know, that many people move to the South and West when they retire.

The Shah of Iran was hated because he was so eager for the approval of the West that he seemed to grovel, especially to the Americans.

At one point, however, the program did show five different racial types in rapid succession asking questions — without showing the answers — in order, presumably, to display the ethnic variety of the American middle west.

They often are silent and look the other way, pointing to unfair treatment by the west of muslins as some form of justification for this odd behavior as Americans.

As Hendershott and White demonstrate, American seminaries, once deeply troubled by the confusions of the immediate post-Vatican II decades, are at the forefront of that renewal, in ways that might well be imitated by other countries in the West.