Word: frontier
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...terrorism to end a century of foreign occupation in their homeland. The Bajorans' appeal for help to the Federation, the interplanetary U.N., brings Sisko and a motley crew of officers to Deep Space Nine. There they interact with a constantly changing cast of aliens who pass through the frontier outpost...
Consider recent events in Lebanon, which is effectively under Syrian control. Earlier this month, the Israelis displayed relative restraint in responding to rocket assaults on its frontier communities by guerrillas of the militant Shi'ite group Hizballah. Syria eventually put a clamp on the attacks. Significantly, neither side broke away from the Middle East negotiations in Washington...
...improve people's lives. If he can turn his "new covenant" rhetoric into reality, he has the chance to personify the type of mood swing ushered in by the rough-riding progressivism of Teddy Roosevelt in 1900, the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 and the New Frontier of John Kennedy...
...hands of unreconstructed apparatchiks and ultranationalists. One of NATO's residual missions is precisely to stand guard against any renascent threat from Russia or the other former Soviet republics, three of which still have nuclear weapons on their soil. Pointing to real or potential trouble spots on the eastern frontier, German Defense Minister Volker Ruhe said last month, "One cannot imagine that such a successful alliance will close its eyes and ears to what is happening...
Americans, by contrast, tinker endlessly with their patchwork of entitlement programs aimed largely at the poor. The failure to make a French-style commitment has much to do with the reverence Americans have for self-reliance. They cling to a new-frontier notion of rugged individualism, forgetting that those who actually braved the alien territories of the Wild West traveled in groups of families, not alone. Through the agrarian era into the modern one, Americans have continued to regard the nurturing of families as a personal issue rather than a public concern. "We have this notion," says research psychologist Arlene...