Word: frontierisms
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...clear to Vice Premier Teng that we want a warm, but correct, relationship-not one of alliance but of cooperation." Carter urged Teng to look at things from the Soviet perspective. It was pointed out that Moscow claims to be as anxious about the Chinese masses on its eastern frontier as Peking is about the Soviet military buildup...
...years to mull over the matter, what they came up with was something called New Foundation. It foundered. Some people yawned; others were derisive. Mainly, everyone was magnificently uninspired. New Foundation just did not have the ring of the great slogans of yesteryear: New Deal, Fair Deal, New Frontier, Great Society. Still, the Carter dud was only a conspicuous example of the general anemia that has beset sloganeering in recent years. Some believe, for example, that the commercial practice of the art has fallen into something of a slump partially because advertising now gives so much attention to research-based...
McPhee's latest book, "Coming into the Country," deals with the frontier in Alaska...
...come up with something better?' " one aide recalls. Apparently not. Indeed, some of the alternatives were clearly worse -"groundwork," for example, or "building blocks." And though "new" is one of the oldest terms in political rhetoric, repeatedly reappearing as in "New Deal" or "New Frontier," the Carter team played with the idea of "improved...
...police from Bogota, with a long and irregular Caribbean shoreline that is ideal for smugglers. Still another reason is that after World War II, Colombia was prey to 15 years of civil strife, generally known simply as "La Violencia." That left 200,000 dead and a society habituated to frontier justice and pervasive corruption. There were widespread rumors that government officials winked at or even sponsored the drug traffic. That changed, however, with the election last June of Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala, 62, former ambassador to Washington, as President...