Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intellectual leader of the New Frontier, Harris was economic adviser to the then Senator Kennedy in 1960 and became a member of the President's Task Force on a Economy in 1960-61. He has currently been serving as a member of the Public Advisory Committee on Area Redevelopment and Senior Consultant to the Secretary of the Treasury...
...checks and balances made the administrative machinery cumbersome and inefficient. This threw Turkish Cypriots into a panic, since they well knew that the announced goal of Makarios and the Greek Cypriots is enosis, that is, eventual union with Greece. Somebody started shooting, and fighting spread rapidly along the frontier between the Greek and Turkish sectors of the capital city of Nicosia. Rooftop snipers traded shots, and teen-age terrorists slugged it out in the suburb of Traphonas, which has a mixed population...
Scant Records. With that kind of start, Astor never was headed. He poured liquor into the frontier areas on the theory that the trader with the whisky was certain of cornering the market. One by one, the independent dealers went out of business or merged with the American Fur Co. Astor's greed was enormous. If company furs were exported in his own ships, he charged the company for the freight. The trappers who supplied him had to buy their clothes and equipment at American Fur Co. posts at a 300%-to-400% markup. But Astor's personal...
Dallas is a city of promoters--were it otherwise, "Big D" would not have survived the frontier. Dallas began as a log cabin in 1841. Hundreds of miles from the nearest rail transportation and plagued by lack of water, Dallas never deserved to grow into a city. But in the 1870's a group of early Dallas boosters (mostly ex-Confederate colonels from Tennessee bribed the Houston and Texas Central Railroad to come to Dallas. The Texas and Pacific building West, though, wouldn't be bought or persuaded. A crafty state legislator from Dallas tacked a rider onto the railroad...
...Neill gave credit for the predicted passage of New Frontier legislation to the surviving influence of President Kennedy, saying that Lyndon Johnson's professional skill could not replace Kennedy's "winning charm." He scored Johnson's recent economy moves as shortsighted, arguing that deficit spending provides more benefit in the long run than a balanced budget...