Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...homeland by their historical neighboring enemy, just as they'd embraced the Khmer Rouge only a few years earlier, Lien credits the Vietnamese with rescuing her from certain death: the flux and confusion accompanying the incursion allowed her and her brothers to escape one night across the reedy, mountainous border into Thailand. Behind in the camp they left a cavernous pit, which Lien had learned was to be a mass grave for the workers...
...when Korean Air Lines (KAL) Flight 007, cruising southwestward from Anchorage over the Bering Sea in the early-morning darkness, came under the watchful eye of Soviet radar. For the next 2½ hr. the blip moved into and out of Soviet airspace. When it crossed over the eastern border of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Soviets scrambled four MiG-23s and Su-15s from the Petropavlovsk airbase on Kamchatka to search for the intruder. Just after 3 a.m., over the Soviet island of Sakhalin, where another six interceptors had given pursuit, the hunters found their quarry...
...south-of-the-border borrowers cannot repay their loans because, like impoverished citizens, they are not earning enough. The region's exports dropped 10% last year, to $95 billion, as world recession and falling commodity prices eroded income from sales abroad. During the 1970s, by contrast, the value of Latin American exports had grown an average of 19% a year. So sharply have exports fallen that the region now owes foreign lenders more than three times the amount it earns annually from exports...
...Nehrbass. Coke's wholesale price in Colombia has fallen from $22,000 to $9,000 in the past year. To reduce inventories, drug wholesalers must move their shipments fast; processed coke is highly perishable. Hauling large amounts makes them vulnerable to seizures. Since June 17 the National Narcotics Border Interdiction System has recovered more than 7,000 Ibs., most of it in South Florida. Says Pearson: "They keep sending it up with carnations from Colombia and we keep intercepting...
...more prevalent knee-jerk feminist who is quick to condemn any woman who looks and lives differently from herself, and who is unwilling to make an effort to recognize the person behind the makeup and hairdo. This type of feminist has a close-minded and superficial approach which can border at times on censorship or, even worse, cattiness. She wants to see options for women opened up in one direction (business, law, medicine) but closed down in another (modeling, for example...