Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the launching of the space shuttle this year [Jan. 12], Americans will once again be migrating to a new frontier. As in California more than a century ago, the colonization of space offers the same hope for new resources, new industry and a renewed sense of national spirit...
...explain the stunning benefits to society from the space race in terms of technology. The larger meaning is much more profound. If John Kennedy, who made the decisions to push beyond earth, were around today, he would probably talk about poetry and history-a shining challenge, a new frontier...
...foreign affairs, everything in sight seems an emergency, from the hostages to the Polish frontier. Whatever happens in Poland, Reagan will not be overeager to negotiate an arms-control pact with the Soviets. What sort of agreement, then, will eventually...
...with Soviet troops still poised on the frontier, even the militants do not want to change the union's conciliatory course-at least just yet. At week's end, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev met with Polish Foreign Minister Jozef Czyrek in Moscow. While expressing confidence that the Polish party could solve the country's internal difficulties, the two leaders assailed "attempts of imperialist and other reactionary circles" to undermine socialist Poland. For the restive militants, it was a grim reminder of the limits of Soviet tolerance...
Austin, a gilded hack writer, has taken a mini-sabbatical from his wife and children to sweat out a movie script. Since his mother has gone to Alaska - symbolic remnant of the last frontier - he has holed up in her home in suburban Los Angeles. Like an anchorite, Lee spends time communing with the desert, but he certainly knows his way around town when it comes to filching TV sets for ready cash As he puts it, he and his brother are both "city coyotes." Lee is also enough of a raconteur and Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, etc., golfer...