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...addition, scholars at the Bunting Institute and the Murray Research Center are on the frontier of research on women's issues, Wilson said...
...forthcoming book, The New Corporate Frontier, author David Heenan, chief executive of Hawaii's Theo. H. Davies conglomerate, argues that a vast new American migration is under way as companies abandon big cities and old- line industrial regions. Says he: "The corporate downsizing of the 1980s proved that you don't need a Pentagon-size bureaucracy to run a business. Downsizing led to outsourcing of suppliers, and has now led to a movement to ship out the whole company. After all, with new technologies, you can run even a global business out of a small town." He's right. Just...
...like Disney World, offers relief not just from the pressures of geography (it is flat and still undeveloped) and of history (more than half the area's population arrived during the past 20 years) but, most of all, from contending ethnicity. In that sense, Orlando is a new psychological frontier, a jumping-off place for a society that revels in the surface of things, even if deeper problems remain unaddressed...
...PIONEERS! (PBS, May 17, 9 p.m. on most stations). American Playhouse brings to TV a stage-musical version of Willa Cather's novel about Swedish immigrants on the Nebraska frontier, starring Mary McDonnell (Dances with Wolves...
...this week, the U.N. expects all allied troops that were occupying southern Iraq to depart, leaving the job of watching over the 120-mile frontier exclusively to its 1,440-person Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission. Among UNIKOM's members, drawn from 35 countries, are 300 military observers whose duty is to patrol the nine-mile-wide demilitarized zone along the border and to report any truce violations on either side to U.N. headquarters...