Word: frontieres
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton Administration's efforts to strengthen commercial ties with Beijing, firms ranging from Boeing to DuPont are teaming up with local partners to build plants in China and circumvent the country's nettlesome trade barriers. In doing so, however, U.S. firms may find themselves marooned on a capitalist frontier where a version of intellectual property rights has yet to be invented and where newly unleashed entrepreneurs openly imitate the products of Western firms on their territory...
Before that frontier opened up, scholars had to rely mostly on Chinese and Persian manuscripts for their information. The newly discovered treasures have helped place those manuscripts in context as well as providing valuable clues to the cultural development of Eurasia. Everyday items such as bronze vessels, weapons, clothing and funerary offerings provide a picture of daily life. And the discovery of both Chinese- and Indian-inspired imagery on porcelain and sculpture confirm Mongolia's role in the cultural exchange between China and Eurasia...
Elsewhere, however, the government let its guard down. On beaches and in port towns up and down the Cuban coast, in Guanabo and in Jaimanitas, the sea was suddenly an open frontier. Many Cubans slipped out of the bays and rivers on their motorized private boats, with entire families on board, for a relatively comfortable crossing. But from the vantage point of the seawall in Miramar, Havana's tree-lined suburb, 30 to 40 inner tubes could be seen setting off by moonlight...
...JERRY VALE -- Frontier Hotel...
...said on Friday, "Rwanda's needs are constantly growing." He put the new figure at $434 million, but who could precisely calculate the cost of a catastrophe that $ kept growing? That same day, U.N. relief agencies were busy redrawing their maps after 200,000 more refugees crossed the northwest frontier into Zaire in just 24 hours...