Word: frontiers
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...male cousins set out to “try their fortunes” in unsettled territory, and Rob’s practical but detailed description of the three men’s attempts to set up a household is full of the appealing roughness of the frontier. After the cousins bring in the rest of their relatives, it’s only a short time until the story catches up to the birth and life of the narrator, which is when the book really takes off.Munro’s work has dealt predominantly with the lives of working-class...
...product launch ever. But there was a price to pay for the delay. "A lot of people [at Yahoo!] feel abused by the outside world and its perception of the company," says Ellen Siminoff, one of Yahoo!'s founding executives, who heads search-advertising agency Efficient Frontier. "They have missed a few quarters this year, they have lowered expectations, they were late in delivering Panama, and so they're in the penalty box with Wall Street...
...border from Jordan, but an Israeli intelligence official told TIME that Siksik was tracked coming across from Egypt. These sources said the bomber had left Gaza and crossed through the Sinai desert mountains, picking up his suicide vest from cohorts along the way, and then cut across the frontier, probably guided by Bedouin smugglers, not far from where he was picked up hitch-hiking by the Israeli reservist...
...Forget the youthquake. What America really loves is... old. Whatever Wayne represents - the Old Testament God, a Mount Rushmore face with a permanent scowl, the craggy soul of Frontier or Sunbelt America - he has made the list in each of the Harris poll's 13 years, and he's figured in the top three slots eight times. It's as if the People's Choice Awards kept picking Elvis as favorite singer...
...ratify the Constitution. James Monroe and John Quincy Adams had signal diplomatic triumphs: Monroe bought the Louisiana Territory from Napolon Bonaparte, doubling the country's size, and Adams, as Monroe's Secretary of State, conceived the Monroe Doctrine, which waved Europe off the western hemisphere. Andrew Jackson, the frontier warrior, beat the Creek Indians in the old Southwest and the British in New Orleans...