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...Chill" context came across like the sullen kids' table at the Woodstock reunion. (So enough about the baby boom, Gen X: What do you think of the baby boom?) It's hard to believe Kennedy was addressing them when he declared, "Today, our generation faces its own New Frontier." Um, our generation, Grampa...
...race was a tiny little frontier skirmish in the much larger war between Ronald Reagan and the elder George Bush over who would control the G.O.P. heading into the 1980 presidential race. W. found that Reagan was actively supporting his primary opponent, Jim Reese, in hopes of weakening the Bush family hold on Texas. Though W. survived the primary, Democrat Kent Hance was far tougher, painting the son as a carpetbagger funded by East Coast fat cats and happily fueling constituents' concerns about the father as an agent of all those One World Government forces, such...
...John provides us with an ability to really ramp up and reach a new frontier for the library both in the kinds of issues that we'll be addressing, the level of people involve, and the degree of visibility that they'll bring," Kirk said...
PERMANENT POPULATION 50,000 frontier-minded folk...
When Joseph Smith first arrived in Illinois in 1839, his people were in dire straits. Smith, who claimed to have received the Book of Mormon from the angel Moroni 12 years earlier, had attracted thousands of adherents, but they had been pushed out of one frontier town after another and ejected from Missouri under threat of death. Yet within three years the new town of Nauvoo boasted 1,500 log homes and shops and 350 brick buildings. Its militia counted 4,000 men, roughly half the size of the U.S. Army at the time. Its visual and spiritual centerpiece...