Word: frontierment
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...walked through the hall, I began to notice significant differences between 1960 and 1996. Kennedy spoke in his inaugural address on a clear, cold January day of a "New Frontier"; we speak of lowering the deficit. Kennedy set goals and started programs that everyone in the country could feel a part of directly or indirectly, like the space program and the Peace Corps; we scale back such programs and look around for more to prune. Most important, Kennedy, in his famous "ask not" quotation and elsewhere, asked the American people to participate in the governing of their country...
...doctors refer to a range of such long-distance ministrations, is the latest buzz in medical technology. The idea is simple enough: doctors and computers in advanced research centers should be able to "dial in" to rural areas to diagnose and treat patients, opening up a whole new medical frontier...
...design drugs to correct whatever has gone awry. Gene mapping would be particularly helpful to people at risk for manic-depressive illness: although lithium and related drugs usually relieve the manic episodes, current antidepressants are often ineffective against the acute depressive ones. Says Ascher: "That's the real frontier...
...early '60s he steered clear of racial politics. Dole supported the major civil rights bills, a political possibility for him because he represented a wheat-farming district that was less than 1% black, where racial friction was about as much of a problem as overcrowding. When the New Frontier evolved into the Great Society, he voted against some War on Poverty measures like public-housing subsidies and the bill that established Medicare. But his Small Government conservatism was open to the Big Government payout opportunities of the '60s. After his 1966 election to the Senate, Dole's first floor speech...
What does this particular city, all shoved up against Puget Sound, so far away from major cultural centers like New York City and Los Angeles, have that keeps people coming? Maybe there is no answer, and that's the answer. Like any frontier, Seattle allows new ideas and combinations. What may seem like an overzealous stretch towards sophistication--espresso in gas stations, at bus stops, in hair salons--is actually just old-fashioned American entrepreneurism in disguise. The same powers that created Budweiser and fast food have latched onto Vienna Roast and steamed milk. It just took a place like...