Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...come up with something better?' " one aide recalls. Apparently not. Indeed, some of the alternatives were clearly worse -"groundwork," for example, or "building blocks." And though "new" is one of the oldest terms in political rhetoric, repeatedly reappearing as in "New Deal" or "New Frontier," the Carter team played with the idea of "improved...
...police from Bogota, with a long and irregular Caribbean shoreline that is ideal for smugglers. Still another reason is that after World War II, Colombia was prey to 15 years of civil strife, generally known simply as "La Violencia." That left 200,000 dead and a society habituated to frontier justice and pervasive corruption. There were widespread rumors that government officials winked at or even sponsored the drug traffic. That changed, however, with the election last June of Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala, 62, former ambassador to Washington, as President...
...case of China. Not long ago, that market seemed hermetically closed. Now Western businessmen dream of selling just one handkerchief to each of the 1 billion Chinese; that would be enough to keep two or more big textile plants rolling for a year. Lyet got onto that new frontier rather early. He visited the Middle Kingdom more than a year ago, and soon thereafter Peking placed with Sperry one of its first significant orders for Western computers...
Truly shocking movies are those that use sex and violence to push the audience to some new and uncharted psychological frontier. That is what happened in Last Tango in Paris, where Bertolucci used raunchy sex to challenge the conventions of romantic love; it is also what happened in The Godfather, where Coppola used gore to undermine the sanctities of the American family. Though imperfect, Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter is as powerful as those bombshells of the early '70s. This excruciatingly violent, three-hour Viet Nam saga demolishes the moral and ideological cliches...
DEFENSE. China's military force is hardly a match for the Soviet Union's 43 divisions and 100,000 crack KGB troops that confront the Chinese along a 4,500-mile frontier. China's air force relies on the aging MiG-21 as its front-line interceptor and on the ancient TU-16 and the Il-28 as its penetration bombers; its nuclear warheads are mounted on intermediate missiles with a range of no more than 4,000 miles. Its navy, though the world's third largest, is equally antiquated: its two nuclear-powered submarines carry...