Word: frontiere
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...granting longtime illegal aliens legal status, the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 ((NATION, May 4)) is moving in the right direction. These immigrants came to the U.S. for the same reason our ancestors did: to be free. They saw a new frontier and a chance to leave unemployment and poverty. How can we slam the door on them...
...powerful new rocket booster sparks fresh talk of a Soviet shuttle flight and highlights Moscow' s high- frontier technology...
...message as the cornered politician endures the prescribed sequence of televised statements, beginning with a tight-lipped acknowledgment of errors in judgment and ending with defiant surrender. So the political process is purified yet again, another heretic is hounded from public life. Some may see a rough frontier justice in the speedy verdict. But others may notice that a less than ennobling odor surrounded the entire affair, and wonder what it is about modern democracy that seems to require living victims...
Play the same game, with a reverse twist. Wander through American history and imagine what it might have been like without certain sinners -- without, say, men who have had an appetite for women other than their wives. Sudden voids. The New Deal and the New Frontier might vanish, for example -- both Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy had relationships with other women. If all the adulterers who ever served in the U.S. Congress were to have their lives and legislative works obliterated from history, America might revert to forest. Perhaps the Supreme Court would remain intact, its virtue protected by advanced...
Even nonmilitary aircraft must take into careful account the presence of the guerrillas and their sophisticated weaponry. The 85 miles between Kabul and the frontier city of Khost, near the border with Pakistan, requires a zigzagging flight of nearly an hour and a half. Taking off from the capital, lumbering Soviet-made An-26 transports climb steadily in defensive spirals. From pods mounted on their fuselages, they trail bright orange flares to divert heat-seeking Stinger missiles that the mujahedin rebels might launch from hidden positions below...