Word: frontierment
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...grave concern. That's because the U.S. seems to be in the midst of one of its periodic alcohol panics, this one focused on adolescents. In the late 1800s and again during the first decade of the 20th century, our alcohol panics focused first on what was called "frontier drinking" and then on drinking in slums. Pulp novels and newspapers carried lurid tales of violent drunkenness. Today news stories offer grim accounts of high school parties that end in gruesome wrecks and of college kids killing themselves by consuming, say, 100 shots in as many minutes. Last year the Surgeon...
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...Although Zimmerman and others said they were excited about the significance of reaching into the final frontier, the event also spurred anxieties about the United States falling behind in the space race. This fear prompted the federal government to send an influx of funding to astronomical researchers throughout the country, making Cambridge the nation’s astronomical Mecca as students kept their eyes cast upward to the skies...
...stump speech is wrapped around American decency and imagination. Her story has heroes too, but she doesn't bother to keep the stragglers in the closet. Her voice in this race is one more reminder of the new road we are traveling. The 2008 campaign is its own frontier: a race in which candidates on both sides talk about the need to come together as a country, even as their life experiences speak to the depth of the differences between...
...overly ideological decisions have held Brazil back," said Assuero Doca Veronez, a cattle rancher in Silva's home state of Acre and the Brazilian Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock Farming's environmental spokesman. "Her aim was to stop the agricultural frontier advancing. The country could have been growing faster if she had been more flexible...