Word: frontierment
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Like many national trends, the anti-immigrant backlash is appearing first and strongest in California. The nation's most populous state is the biggest lure for illegal immigrants, mainly Mexicans who sneak, run, and tunnel across the frontier in numbers far greater than the border patrol can possibly control. They then compete for jobs in a state that has suffered deeper employment losses than most during the long national recession and limping recovery. Or so say the critics; allies of the immigrants insist they actually make the economy more competitive by taking low-wage, manual-labor jobs that Americans scorn...
...blue (as long as you were a fish). As the head of the Brady clan, Robert Reed gave us all room to be groovy and made it acceptable for men to get perms. And Michael Landon championed the spirit of adventure on the American frontier on "Little House on the Prairie...
...ambitions command attention because he has scored one success after another, even if his first Las Vegas venture was a flop. At 25, he took money he had made in his family's bingo business in Maryland and invested $45,000 to purchase a 3% interest in the Frontier Hotel, where he became the slot manager. But several stockholders of the hotel turned out to be stand-ins for Detroit mobsters, and Wynn was forced to sell early. He was never accused of being anything but an innocent in the affair, and he did get something invaluable...
...because he's so smart and works so hard," says a longtime Clinton friend. "The badge of honor in his White House is the fact that no one dawdles and everyone brags about not sleeping." (Such an affection for process over substance dominated the early months of the New Frontier too. "Yeah," said Robert Kennedy in a sober, after-the-fact recollection, "those were the days when we thought we were succeeding because of all the stories on how hard everybody was working...
That is the factual background of this vivid historical novel -- part poignant biographical fiction, part raw frontier epic. Like the author herself, a former ballet dancer and granddaughter of a white slave, the narrator is an American woman residing in Britain who returns home to learn the true story of her grandfather, which he had recorded in coded diaries. Jonathan Carrick had been a "boughten boy," indentured when he was four for $15 to an ice-hearted tobacco farmer named Alvah Stoke. Dickensian is too amiable a word for Jonathan's ordeals. He slept on a dirt floor with...