Word: frontiere
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shuttle tradition: a presidential telephone call. Speaking from his California ranch, Ronald Reagan praised the men for their courage and inspiration. McCandless, asked by the President to explain the significance of his and Stewart's activities, replied grandiloquently. Said he: "We're literally opening a new frontier in what man can do in space, and we'll be paving the way for many important operations on the coming space stations." Reagan had formally endorsed the idea of such a program in last month's State of the Union address...
...front, freshman John Coulees (15 points and 19 assists) leeds the way, followed by senior Mark Pierog (15 and 13). Defenders T. J. Connolly and Scott Shaunesey make up the final frontier before Daskalakisland...
...mile flight from San Lorenzo to Aguacate. Schwab was unable to maintain his course 25 miles inside Honduras' southern border with Nicaragua, possibly because of 30-knot winds, the embassy said. As a result, the pilot was forced to land on a rutted dirt road near the frontier. When Schwab and his passengers got out of the aircraft, they came under intense fire from Sandinista troops. The two engineers escaped unhurt...
...second what we are really about, the business of electing decent Presidents, it should not be hard to get rid of this whiskey-semantic trance; carry a dictionary and a Constitution about when you listen to the President speak, and refer to them, not to your yearning for the frontier. Then let us hope that in 1985, we can send all the thises, peacekeeping forces and randomly cited percentages back to California, where they belong...
...become a rallying cry for Democratic presidential candidates, organized labor and some business groups. Robert Reich, 37, a professor of business and public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, is one of the leading advocates of such a program, and his book The Next American Frontier has become a baedeker for industrial policy since its publication in May. Last week Reich was a guest at the meeting of the TIME Board of Economists...