Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...damn thing over. We'll go to conference." Despite the obituaries, the bill was thus not yet dead, but it was not healthy either. Only a starkly simple political reality had jeopardized the long-awaited attempt to do something about America's chaotic situation along the Mexican border: each party figures it had better win Texas if it is to have a good chance of winning the presidency in November; 20% of all Texans have Hispanic surnames. -By Ed Magnuson...
...surprise when the West German government also announced that East Germany will ease some of the restrictions that divide families and friends in the two countries. Among the improvements: West Germans can now spend 45 days a year instead of 30 on the other side of the border...
...poverty or the ruthlessness of their politics." Founded on a basis of meticulous research, his book is, in the end, an elegy to good intentions ill directed and a cry of conscience on behalf of the 240,000 Kampuchean refugees who continue to haunt the limbo of the border camps...
...weeks ago, a white Mercedes-Benz truck with SOVTRANSAVTO painted in blue Cyrillic letters on its side pulled up to the Swiss border at Basel. The nine-ton tractor-trailer did not need to be inspected, the three Soviets inside insisted, because it was merely a "diplomatic pouch." But Swiss officials refused to accept that. Though the Vienna Convention does not specify a maximum size for a diplomatic pouch, the Swiss pointed out, in practice it almost never covers cartons of more than 450 Ibs. After much haggling, the Swiss allowed the truck to continue to the Soviet mission...
...American airlines estimate that installing noise-abatement equipment in their fleets would cost $1 billion and bankrupt many of them. Moreover, Richard H. Judy, director of the Dade County aviation department, predicts that more than 6,000 aviation jobs in Florida and an additional 1,000 south of the border will be lost unless the FAA extends the deadline to Jan. 1, 1988. So far, the FAA seems unwilling...