• Reverend Billy is the stage persona created by a man named Bill Talen, 60, who grew up in a strict Dutch Calvinist household in the Middle West.

    FORBES: Reverend Billy and His Crusade Against Consumerism

  • A. R. out in the Middle West.

    NPR: Excerpt: The Sherwood Ring

  • In spite of this rejection, these places do not mind being put in the Middle East, though viewed from, say, the Far East they are really in the Middle West, which everyone knows is in America, or rather the United States, as others in the western hemisphere like to call it.

    ECONOMIST: Political geography needs some new terms

  • He died in August, 1923, probably of a heart attack, in the middle of a West Coast speaking tour.

    NEWYORKER: Less Said

  • Outside the Middle East, West Africa and parts of Russia, most of the easily accessible reservoirs have been sucked nearly dry.

    FORBES: The Big Plunge

  • An early draft of the disengagement plan included about a dozen more settlements in the middle of the West Bank, which in the end were left intact.

    ECONOMIST: Israel and Palestine

  • Like members of the middle class in the West, they want to have a better life and give their children an even better life.

    FORBES: The Chinese Middle Class View of the Leadership Transition

  • John waited outside West Kirkland Middle School for his dad.

    NPR: 'Arson' by Nick Lysohir

  • Although many people are worried that the middle class in the West is shrinking, Americans still enjoy immense privilege compared to the vast majority of people in the world.

    FORBES: While Americans Indulge in Over-consumption, Chinese Move Up by Enduring Hardship

  • The problem is we, many Muslims who leave the Middle East for the West, thinking they are being protected, we discover, when we're in America, we are not protected, because radical Islam follows us here.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Rifqa Bary and the Noor Mosque

  • On the one hand, she liked the idea of a memorial to the war because it implied the conflict could have an end but, on the other, she had always been wary of judgmental "black-and-white" attitudes to the Middle East in the West.

    BBC: NEWS | Middle East | Iraq's war reaches the arts world

  • He is vying for a national parliamentary seat in a middle-class neighborhood in west Lahore.

    WSJ: Ex-Cricketer Shakes Up Pakistani Election

  • Countries in the West and the Middle East have been critical of the al-Assad regime but have not intervened militarily.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Moscow's decision represents its latest break with fellow Middle East mediators in the West who've blocked aid funding to the Palestinians since Hamas took over the government.

    NPR: Russia, Hamas and the United States

  • The Middle East fell behind the West because it failed to produce commercial institutions most notably joint-stock companies that were capable of mobilising large quantities of productive resources and enduring over time.

    ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: Russian love in a cold climate | The

  • Al-Jazeera admits Web use is lower in the Middle East than in the West, but now that it has established a beachhead, it is anxious to tout the benefits of advertising to what it claims is an affluent audience.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • West is still dominated by large housing estates but there are also middle-class areas around Dundee Law and the West End, for example.

    BBC: NEWS | VOTE 2003

  • There were two new passengers on the bunks below who had got on in the middle of the night, somewhere west of Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

    BBC: A train to nowhere in Siberia

  • Reaching further back, the Central Europeans who belonged to the Habsburg empire have tapped into a tradition of education, administration and commerce, backed by a middle-class, that looked west.

    ECONOMIST: The ex-communist east

  • The dishonesty caused the loss of thousands of lives without in any way assuaging the terrorist threat, bringing peace to the Middle East, or securing the West's oil supplies.

    ECONOMIST: War words

  • Nigerians from elsewhere point out that the oil industry was originally devloped with money earned from groundnuts from the north, coal from the east, tin from the middle belt and cocoa from the west.

    BBC: Oil wealth: An unequal bounty

  • And it sort of got lost this week, and nobody has asked about it, but the United States dropped its demand that Israel freeze its settlements in the Middle East -- on the West Bank.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Will Honeybourne, a First Reserve managing director in Houston who helped spearhead the deal--and beat out rival buyout shop Candover--notes that Abbot's rig-building and operating subsidiaries Bentec and KCA Deutag are particularly strong in Russia, West Africa, the Middle East and Libya.

    FORBES: First Reserve Bets On Abbot

  • Will men and women be able to mingle freely in the developments as they do in the West or in many other Middle Eastern countries?

    BBC: New cities rise from Saudi desert

  • Even in west Leicester, a solitary middle-aged Jamaican man can walk into a pub on an almost entirely white housing estate without fear of trouble.

    ECONOMIST: Poor whites

  • To do this it requires that Arabs deny the suffering of the Middle East at the hands of the West and pass blame to the Jews.

    FORBES: Did Reddit Discover Silent Censorship On Google Plus?

  • African airline start-ups, local carriers and even international airlines are out to prove that jet travel can extend beyond deep-pocketed passengers to West Africa's flourishing middle-class and business travelers.

    WSJ: What's News

  • What makes this case all the more egregious is that this doctrine-Shariah-also happens to be the underlying legal and military doctrine animating jihad against the West by Muslims from the Middle East, Asia, Russia, Africa, and even right here at home.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

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