Word: frontier
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...some citizens contend that putting Cambridge on the frontier of environmentalism would actually be helpful to business and a boon to the city's stagnant economic situation...
...Serbs, however, regard Kosovo as holy ground, the cradle of their nationhood, because of 1389 and all that. It has never helped relations between the two communities that Albanians are predominantly Muslims, while Serbs in the region have tended to see themselves as descendants of Lazar, defending the eastern frontier of Christendom against the encroachments of Islam. During the 1980s, this classically Balkan imbroglio played a key part in the rise of Milosevic, who in turn has contributed so crucially to the disintegration of Yugoslavia...
...clever system in which companies and utilities will be issued permits to produce certain amounts of the gas. If a company finds ways to produce less SO2 than it is allowed to, it can make money by selling unused pollution permits to other firms. "This is the frontier of environmental policy," says Robert Stavins, an economist at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. "It allows a firm to go out and choose the best technology it can. And it also provides an incentive to cut pollution below government requirements...
CINEMA Tom Cruise in a hell-for-leather frontier epic...
...from high big-city taxes also joined the rush, feeding the growth of hybrid suburb-cities like Virginia's Tysons Corner, Perimeter Center outside Atlanta, and the spanking new localities of the Route 128 corridor in Massachusetts. According to Joel Garreau, author of Edge City: Life on the New Frontier, by many standards of urban life these mostly low- rise population centers are already minicities. Most of the more than 200 suburban hybrids that he studied have more office space, shopping, entertainment, prestigious hotels, corporate headquarters -- even hospitals with high-tech CAT-scan machines -- than such conventional cities as Tampa...