Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rapidly sweep through the gulf sheikdoms, as well as Saudi Arabia's oil-rich eastern province, particularly if encouraged by Khomeini militants who are so imbued with the notion of a Shi'ite holy crusade. As Iran's military machine gathers its strength at the Iraqi frontier, the leaders of the Arab gulf states are beginning to fear that such a hypothetical possibility is drawing closer to reality every day. -By William Drozdiak. Reported by Murray J. Gart and Dean Brelis/Baghdad
...assistance programs. He intimates that female activists--who owed their ascendancy to Democratic initiatives--largely discredited those moves toward political equality by stubbornly pushing obstructionist feminist convention planks that divided the major parties. Other scattered observations reinforce the impression that after 22 years, White has left the New Frontier-Great Society fold...
...White House, the Democrats do not have to reward their traditional constituencies with new programs. "Reagan is absolutely ensuring us that we have all the blacks, environmentalists, women and labor union members," claims Jim Johnson, an aide to Mondale. "We don't have to be on the frontier issues any more." Thus the party is free to overhaul shopworn policies and get them in line with the demands and limits of the 1980s. "Voters want a balance between budget cutting and spending," says Washington Pollster Peter Hart. "They are looking for equilibrium. The trouble is that Democrats tend...
...story. If poor John Hinckley Jr. [May 24] had lived in an earlier age, he might have run off to sea, joined the Foreign Legion or emigrated to distant shores. After a while he might have found himself. Unfortunately, hardly a frontier remains for these mixed-up kids who believe themselves to be misfits...
...vision carries an unmistakably romantic hue; it conjures up an image of a time when there were only men and the frontier, when people's ambitions awaited realization on a new and untainted continent. It recalls that long period of history--some say it has yet to end--when America meant the land of dreams for millions here and abroad. The means toward the fulfillment of this vision. Reagan and his followers contend, also he in a return to history in a return to the limited governments of the past...