Word: frontieres
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...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...
...about two-fifths aqueous, which is just enough. Raban sets out from Liverpool in a giant container ship, discovers that the ocean is even larger -- good storm action here -- and then burrows for several weeks each in Manhattan, a small and sleepy Alabama burg called Guntersville and our last frontier, Seattle...
POLICING THE IRAQ-KUWAIT FRONTIER...
...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...