Word: frontiere
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unlikely combination of circumstances has conspired to keep this curious, compelling tale from public view. History is written by the victors; the senior Franklin's autobiography gives his offspring no more than a brief nod for helping him build some frontier forts. As for William, his chance of writing his own version was severely hampered by a Revolutionary War fire that destroyed not only his furniture but all his papers. Luck was most assuredly not on this man's side...
...industry was given increased freedom to set fares and pick routes in 1978, People Express and other new, cut-rate carriers have started shootouts in the skies. While such airlines as American, United and Delta reported strong profits in 1984, several others, including Pan American, Eastern, Western and Frontier, posted losses...
...LORDS: FRONTIER DAYS (EMI/America). A major-label debut by a hang- tough New York band...
...this year have taken place in the South, eight of them in Florida. "The Sunbelt has always been the most execution-prone section of the country," says Watt Espy, a capital-punishment expert at the University of Alabama Law Center, who cites the area's traditions of frontier violence and eye-for-an-eye justice. But this regionalism will probably end soon. Indiana expects to put at least one person to death during 1985. So do Nebraska, Missouri and Idaho...
Advanced technology is not the province of just a few way-out industries. Zysman, who studies the exotic fields from the outskirts of California's Silicon Valley, maintains that the frontier industries are changing the way other, more commonplace businesses are conducted. These technologies, he says, are "transforming the whole economy." Textiles and apparel making, for example, are usually considered labor-intensive, backward industries. But instead of being displaced by that technology, contends Zysman, textile manufacturing is part of the new industrial revolution. Cloth can be cut by laser beams, and looms are driven by computers programmed, ironically...