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...older shows (Murder, She Wrote; Knots Landing) along with newcomers like Bob, the umpteenth Bob Newhart comedy; and on Saturday night, where stay-at-homes can flip between all three networks and find such anachronistic offerings as Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (Jane Seymour as a doctor on the American frontier), Covington Cross (a medieval knight and his family) and Crossroads (Robert Urich traveling the country in a reprise of Route...
...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...
...give him a chance, and the conversation wanders away from health care and towards a vision that fuses New Deal and New Frontier values into a national youth service program...
...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...