Word: frontierment
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Years before Star Trek's U.S.S. Enterprise, Jacques Cousteau, or even National Geographic boldly ventured forth seeking knowledge and new territories, many Americans considered the expanse west of the Mississippi River the Great Frontier. For some, this title still holds true...
...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...
...yearsto reimburse the corporations for compliance. However, an earlier draft of thelegislation was changed so that online bulletin board services such as AmericaOnline have been excluded from the provisions. And restrictions on releasingrecords regarding transactions on the Net were actually tightened. Jerry Berman,deputy policy director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, called the newbill a "significant victory" for electronic wanderers. Clinton's expected tosign it Wednesday...
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...