Binge drinking "already an epidemic in many Western countries", it added, was on the rise.
Many western countries want to reduce their armed forces anyway, and raising the minimum age is a painless way to cut.
Not long ago a fashionable anxiety in many western countries was that youngsters were being over educated that is, schooled beyond society's needs.
They have to hold more capital than banks in many Western countries.
It could force many Western countries to reform public sectors which have accounted for ever more of their economies and delivered lousy services.
Enforcement of fire-safety rules in Russia is lax, contributing to a death rate from fires that is far higher than in many Western countries.
And that's what many Western countries suspect Iran is doing.
He has failed to halt the steady haemorrhage of believers in many Western countries, although the Catholic Church continues to grow in numbers in parts of Africa and Asia.
The effort to formulate a worldwide policy for a more regulated Internet failed in Dubai last year after many Western countries said a compromise plan gave too much power to the United Nations.
The example of Senegal (and, indeed, the strongly worded, morally neutral advertising campaigns conducted in many western countries in the 1980s), shows the value of early action as surely as do Dr Anderson's models.
Late last year, the United States led a coalition of countries that refused to sign an International Telecommunications Regulations treaty because it proposed regulations that many Western countries considered to be a threat to the open Internet.
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Jews have lived in this country, in the States, and in many other Western countries, for centuries, and they just get on with it.
Jordan has had a long cooperation in terms of its intelligence and military services, not just with the United States but with many of the Western countries, and, indeed, with Israel and other countries around that area.
The report also says rates of murder and violent crime have fallen more rapidly in the UK in the past decade than many other countries in western Europe.
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Many politicians from richer and more stable western European countries have argued for setting a limit to the number of poor, developing democracies they take on.
It is hardly surprising that, given the chance, many Romanies try their luck in the richer countries of western Europe.
Many observers have also argued that a number of countries have grown rapidly -- Western Europe and Japan before and China today -- without free mobility of private capital, especially of portfolio capital.
Many poor countries provide legal protection for workers that rivals that in the most welfare-minded western European countries.
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In part, this is due to a quirk of the rules that oblige Western oil firms to share the crude they produce with state-owned oil firms in many countries.
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Western missionaries brought grapes and wine to China along with their Bibles as they did in so many other countries.
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