Word: frontierisms
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...away from the provinces by sharply raising federal taxes on existing oil and gas production. Some of the resulting revenues would then be used by the federal government to help finance generous tax breaks for Canadian-controlled energy companies so that they could explore for oil on federally owned frontier lands such as the Northwest Territories and the Yukon. The plan would put foreign companies operating in those regions at a severe disadvantage, but it would help shore up a sense of Canadian national identity throughout the country...
...Continental chairman had built up a reputation as one of the top executives in the airline industry. Only two months ago, Pan American Chairman William Seawell offered Feldman the Pan Am presidency, but Feldman declined. During nine years as chairman of Denver-based Frontier Airlines in the 1970s, Feldman transformed that carrier from a major loser to a consistent moneymaker by paring unprofitable routes, streamlining management and restructuring its flight operations...
Patriotism is open here, even natural, although its military trappings are somewhat muted. From a booth on the main street, which has the bustle of a frontier town, Green Berets offer classes in first aid. At an Air Force exhibit near by, Scouts watch a ten-minute film about B-52s and climb into a cockpit for a simulated flight. The National Rifle Association, which has mounted a nationwide campaign against gun controls, is less subtle: a Scout learns how to shoot and how to cook the game he kills. More popular are lessons in how to pan for gold...
...ambitious resolve, but unlike those of many another 33-year-old, it was carried out. Leaving his new, young wife behind, Catlin set out for the territory beyond the Mississippi. For six years he traveled the farthest reaches of the frontier, where a white man had about equal chances of being offered a peace pipe or getting an arrow through his throat...
...rolling Franconian countryside, near the point where West Germany, East Germany and Czechoslovakia meet, a U.S. Army helicopter is giving a brisk guided tour of the frontier. The helicopter cruises parallel to the ugly belt of East German barbed wire and minefields, staying about 100 yds. to the safe side. Occasionally the pilot banks sharply to avoid stray "peninsulas" of East German territory jutting out from the fencing. "You have to know this border by heart," says the pilot. "You could get yourself shot at." His passengers are appreciative. "We call those places 'Gotchas,' " he adds pleasantly. Back...