WHEN I first encountered Ron Wyden in 1974, he was setting up the Oregon outpost of the Gray Panthers, a lobby group founded by the liberal activist Maggie Kuhn with a broad agenda but an emphasis on empowering the elderly.
HALF a thousand years ago, in 1508, Juan Ponce de León arrived on the island of Puerto Rico and set up an outpost near the back of the great harbor on the island's northeast coast.
Junger, bestselling author of The Perfect Storm, spent more than a year in the mountains with the 503rd Infantry's Second Platoon, which pushed into the Afghan woods and set up an outpost in the Korengal Valley, a six-mile-long stretch of land in the Hindu Kush mountains populated by heavily armed insurgents.
Jafari himself spent three years, from 15 to 18, in another jail, after being arrested for throwing a petrol bomb at Jews who had set up an outpost in the refugee camp itself.
Setting up an outpost in mainland China has become increasingly common for the world's higher education leaders.
The company, which is headquartered in South Korea, set up an outpost in San Francisco at the end of last year.
Fittingly, Larsen, a former US Navy SEAL, began his three-part series at the site of a former school, where the army has set up an outpost, just 1,000 meters from a second school, which Boko Haram uses as a staging point to launch attacks.
Since rural Englishness, at least in the south, now includes the possibility that international art institutions might set up an outpost in converted agricultural buildings, it stands in the estate of just such a place.
Just two years ago, NASA had hoped to build an even larger rocket that would take astronauts back to the moon and set up an outpost there.
He also began working part-time for the Biuro Szyfrów (Cipher Bureau), which by then had concluded the cryptology course and set up an outpost at Poznań to decrypt intercepted German radio messages.
