Word: frontiers
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...This project is really at the frontier of education technology. If it works, it really will improve people's access to education," said Ellen...
...short film, "Afghanistan: Freedom's Frontier," provided by the Committee for a Free Afghanistan, followed last night's speech...
...series of study groups to "enhance the awareness of science and technology in frontier areas...
...care if it's the janitor, if he knows how." Kennedy fidgeted, ran his hand through his hair, grimaced at the news that it would take $40 billion and ten years to get a man on the moon--and then he might be greeted by a Soviet cosmonaut. But frontiers are not conquered by cost accountants. Kennedy left the meeting and went into the Oval Office. In a few minutes his aide Ted Sorensen came out and told a friend, "We are going to the moon." It was a goal that suddenly gave real meaning to Kennedy's slogan...
...does not know that much about the byways of the solar system. But his sense of American pride has been almost faultless. He has understood intuitively that people must have a challenge that takes them out of the despair that crowds every day. There must be a new frontier beckoning, promising some new hope. He even sees space as a way, in his words, "to render nuclear weapons obsolete." But his proposal to build and perhaps share satellite-based missile defense shields failed to produce the superpower cooperation he says he envisioned. Indeed, it provoked one of the deepest disputes...