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East is East and West is West (and never the twain shall meet).

Prov. Two things are so different that they can never come together or agree. (From Rud-yard Kipling's poem, "The Ballad of East and West.") I had hoped that Andrew and I could be friends in spite of our political differences. But, in our case, I'm afraid that East is East and West is West.

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1. (old-fashioned) if something goes west, it is destroyed or lost My watch went west when I accidentally dropped it on a concrete floor. That's my chance of seeing the game gone west!

2. (British & Australian old-fashioned) if someone goes west, they die He went west in a plane crash.

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The farther the project goes west, the bigger the impact it will have on the industrial park. Community in crisis: Elk Grove Park District fights shrinking tax ... by Tam, Dixon / Parks & Recreation In its first year, MYP produced "The Little Engine That Could," a short film that ran before Universal's 1991 animated feature "An American Tail: Fievel Goes West. Drawn to new path: independent animation studio takes reverse ... by Dougherty, Conor / Los Angeles Business Journal From there, the boundary line goes west on Branford; south on Woodman and Ventura Canyon avenues; east on Cantara Street; south along the Tujunga Wash; west along the railroad track; north on the San Diego Freeway; east on Chase Street; north on Burnet Avenue; east along Parthenia Street; and north along the Pacoima Wash to the Golden State Freeway. DISTRICT 6 CANDIDATES SEE QUALITY OF LIFE AS DOMINANT ISSUE by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) More results

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The farther the project goes west, the bigger the impact it will have on the industrial park.

Community in crisis: Elk Grove Park District fights shrinking tax ... by Tam, Dixon / Parks & Recreation

In its first year, MYP produced "The Little Engine That Could," a short film that ran before Universal's 1991 animated feature "An American Tail: Fievel Goes West.

Drawn to new path: independent animation studio takes reverse ... by Dougherty, Conor / Los Angeles Business Journal

From there, the boundary line goes west on Branford; south on Woodman and Ventura Canyon avenues; east on Cantara Street; south along the Tujunga Wash; west along the railroad track; north on the San Diego Freeway; east on Chase Street; north on Burnet Avenue; east along Parthenia Street; and north along the Pacoima Wash to the Golden State Freeway.

DISTRICT 6 CANDIDATES SEE QUALITY OF LIFE AS DOMINANT ISSUE by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

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