Word: frontierisms
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...Soviet Union. Fifty-two Soviet army divisions sit along China's northern frontier. China shares with the U.S. a mistrust of Moscow's international designs, but its leaders bridle when U.S. strategy seems to regard them primarily as a strategic foil to the Soviets. Indeed, last week Moscow announced that First Deputy Prime Minister Ivan Arkhipov will make an official trip to China in mid-May; he will be the highest-ranking Kremlin visitor since the early 1960s. Moreover, Peking is seeking to become the Middle Kingdom in modern geopolitical terms, a genuinely nonaligned state...
...have one condition: sufficient security arrangements on our northern frontier. It will be possible if we can find grounds for cooperation with Lebanese factions on the spot...
Ralph: Wanda, you're trying to bring me a bulletin from the sexual frontier. Out with...
...cessation of hostilities between the P.L.O. and Israel under an agreement brokered by our special Middle East envoy, Philip Habib, and Saudi Arabia. Begin interpreted the cessation of hostilities as universal and regarded any terrorist attack anywhere in the world, as well as the violation of any Israeli frontier, as a breach of the agreement meriting retaliation...
...modern as it is, though, the Deere factory can hardly compare with the frontier-breaching printed-circuit-board plant of AT&T Technologies in Richmond, Va. There computers receive complex instructions from a dozen Bell Laboratories design centers scattered throughout the U.S. The instructions are then used to turn out on demand a limitless variety of circuit boards containing hundreds of parts. The operation is so smooth that AT&T can change designs overnight without interrupting production...