Word: frontier
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...most brutal and sensational acts in the American Southwest of the late 19th century - Jacoby breaks them out separately, to better unpack what he calls the "palimpsest of many stories" surrounding the massacre. The goal is to add nuance to the accepted narratives of the American frontier as cowboy vs. Indian, good vs. bad, Manifest Destiny vs. native Americans' ancient claim to the land...
...music,” she says. “It was almost as though I were writing a paper, which was an extremely unorthodox way of choreographing.” In “Appalachian Spring”—the iconic work about the American frontier created by choreographer Martha Graham and composer Aaron Copland—dancers were charged with living up to the standards of performance upheld by the Martha Graham Foundation. As part of their licensing agreements, the Foundation sends someone to set the piece in order, ensuring that Graham’s choreography...
...what is pushing it back. A major reason that Proposition 8 passed in California this election-cycle is that voters were responding to a decision that had been made quite suddenly by a handful of activist judges on the California Supreme Court. California has always been at the frontier of gay rights, and the state may have been well on its way toward ratifying same-sex marriage statewide. But the lack of patience on the part of gay marriage proponents sent the message to California voters that popular opinion was unimportant. It is little wonder voters sought a constitutional...
Corporate 401(k) stinginess has already set in. GM is suspending 401(k) matching and tuition reimbursement, as is Frontier Airlines. And in a recent survey conducted by Watson Wyatt, a human-resources consulting firm, 6% of companies said they either had already cut 401(k) contributions or planned to over the next 12 months. "Do people notice their retirement benefits as much as their health care? No, they don't," says Maureen Tarantello, a Watson Wyatt senior consultant. "They deal with health benefits every time they see a doctor, but retirement is something that comes into play much later...
...spilled beyond its borders, with a constant flow of refugees being smuggled in by leaky boats to Yemen and even more walking south to Kenya. There are more than 200,000 people crowded into the world's biggest refugee camp, at Dadaab, 62 miles (100 km) south of the frontier; some 5,000 new refugees arrive every month...