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  • Communist authorities accused Tangojünglinge Tango-boys and other young males wearing American-style clothing of waging “provocations” that led to a massive popular uprising against the Communist regime in June 1953.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • Now it's the stop I use to get to the Brooklyn Beef Club, a new Berlin attempt at an American-style steakhouse.

    Berlin's Summer of Discontent J. S. Marcus in Berlin 2011

  • Doig, who has had a full-time family practice in Saskatoon for 30 years, acknowledges that when physicians have talked about changing the health-care system in the past, they've been accused of wanting an American-style structure.

    Health care reform is dead (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • Yukio Hatoyama, who became prime minister of Japan after his Democratic Party won the election of 2009, startled the Obama administration when he wrote, shortly before winning office, “The recent economic crisis resulted from a way of thinking based on the idea that American-style free-market economics represents a universal and ideal economic order.”

    Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

  • Increasingly, when you think of Boots or Next, you will not picture a standard-issue, high street shop, but a much bigger construction, either placed within a town centre "retail destination", or plonked on a ring road in an American-style strip mall built around a vast car park.

    The British high street: RIP 2011

  • Variations abound, depending on the room: A shoulder-height, custom-milled American-style bookcase running along a bedroom wall is cozy perfection; the three-quarter height provides ample hard- and soft-back storage with a shelf on top for a lamp, pictures and magazines.

    Bookish Good Looks Sara Ruffin Costello 2011

  • The 156-year-old public university will run an American-style school in Zhejiang province, a relatively wealthy state an hour south of Shanghai, university president Dawood Farahi announced Wednesday.

    Kean to Open China Campus Heather Haddon 2011

  • With American companies looking to expand in fast-emerging markets such as India and China, American-style restaurants are laying the groundwork by offering a tasty preview of American culture.

    From Starbucks to TGI Friday's, India has its way with American food Emily Wax 2011

  • The schools has built several facilities on its Union Township campus, received approval in December to run an American-style campus in China and is opening satellite sites at New Jersey community colleges.

    New Scrutiny for President of University Heather Haddon 2012

  • Siemens, a lumbering giant no more, combines superb German engineering with ruthless, American-style cost cutting to rise as a formidable competitor.

    To make good stock decisions, consider a global perspective Andrew Tanzer 2011

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