Word: border
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Abroad, though, is also where UPS faces some of its biggest risk. Increasingly stringent environmental laws and rising costs for Asian labor and raw materials all make this business vulnerable. An even more immediate concern is the possibility of government-imposed tariffs or border restrictions. "Global trade is going to lead this recovery," Davis says. "I get on my bully pulpit against anything that could impede...
...Mass. Representative Edward J. Markey while bartending at night, Cavallaro became increasingly interested in the causes and consequences of U.S. policy toward Central and South America. His newfound focus led him to the Annunciation House, a facility that helps poor migrants and political refugees along the U.S.-Mexico border. Provided with room, board, and a small stipend, Cavallaro worked with Central American refugees on asylum cases, leading him to become interested in using law to further human rights...
...including members of the Netanyahu government, privately agree that the West Bank Palestinians, who had famously kicked away every good chance for peace they were offered, have finally gotten their act together. There has been no significant violence directed at Israel from the West Bank. Even the Hamas-controlled border with Gaza has been quiet. "On the other hand, what have the Israelis done to meet their road-map obligations?" Abbas continues. "What have they done with regard to stopping illegal settlement on our land...
...Intelligence (ISI), had netted a very big fish: Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Afghan Taliban's military chief. In quick succession, the ISI had also rolled up two of the Taliban's "shadow" governors of Afghanistan's provinces and another senior figure. And in North Waziristan, near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, a missile launched from a CIA drone had struck at the heart of the Haqqani network, an al-Qaeda-affiliated group responsible for countless attacks on NATO troops. The network's current leader, Sirajuddin Haqqani, survived, but his younger brother Mohammed had been killed...
...Pakistani Play Under normal circumstances, in planning his offensive McChrystal would have had to keep a close watch on Afghanistan's difficult neighbor. Pakistan's support for the Taliban and the Haqqani network has frequently bedeviled U.S. military plans, as Afghan fighters have too easily slipped across the border and found sanctuary. But a year's worth of diplomatic pressure on Islamabad began to pay off before Operation Moshtarak: Pakistan launched a major military offensive of its own in South Waziristan, not against the Afghan Taliban but against its Pakistani cousins known as the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan...