Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Spring winds come early and stay late in the Daxing'anling mountains. But residents of the area, nestled along China's northeastern border, know the breeze that refreshes can also be a formidable enemy. Over the past 20 years, there have been 880 reported forest fires in the area, most of them small and controllable...
...supplanted by two powerful mining companies that have government concessions to prospect on Indian land. Also on hand are an unknown number of soldiers, who are building a $109 million network of outposts to prevent gold smuggling and to keep Colombian rebels and cocaine couriers from violating the Brazilian border...
...reform law to stop illegal immigration is not going to work. We have to attack the problem where it starts: on the border and in Mexico. There is no mention of beefing up border patrols or of promoting economic reform in Central America. Trying to solve such a serious matter with mere wrist slapping and paperwork is like trying to stop a tidal wave with an umbrella...
...chairman of the largest U. S. bank admits it may never collect on major portions of its foreign debt. Citicorp will post a loss of $2.5 billion for the quarter, which may lessen to $1 billion for the year. -- Prosperity and controversy on the U. S.- Mexican border. -- Madison Avenue fights a new service tax. -- Want an oddball investment? Try baseball trading cards...
...higher than 90 ft. to avoid being spotted by radar. Minutes later, two Czechoslovak air force Albatros jets closed in but turned away as he entered West German airspace. Vladimir kept flying until his fuel was gone, finally sputtering to earth in a potato field 19 miles from the border. "I've seen a lot of escapees," said a regional police official, "but this fellow had a real pioneer spirit...