Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Canadians try to get around their country's steep taxes on hooch. A 1 3/4-liter bottle of Smirnoff vodka sells for as much as $26.50 in Canada, with taxes accounting for nearly $22 of the price. A similar size bottle can be had for only $16 across the border in New York. "There's little stigma attached to smuggling liquor," says William McKissock, a senior Canada Customs antismuggling officer. "It's a lot easier to sell a case of Scotch than a kilo of cocaine...
...Salton Sea, and the U.S. Geological Survey stopped taking river samples two years ago. Reason: the water is too unhealthy to handle. But despite repeated promises from the Mexican government, little has been done. "The problem," says Environmental Protection Agency Official Richard Coddington, "is that there's an international border, and Mexico has sovereignty on that side of the line. We wish they'd ask us to help...
...classic polluters as food-processing and chemical plants dump ! organic wastes, pesticides, solvents and other chemicals into slime-filled ditches that drain into the river. About 100 toxic substances, including mercury and such known or suspected cancer-causing agents as PCBs, toxaphene and benzene have been identified at the border sampling site...
...contact. Though no one uses the water for drinking or irrigation, infected drifts of foam from Mexican laundry detergents are sometimes scattered by the wind, and Cottrell fears an epidemic is inevitable. At greatest risk are illegal immigrants, who occasionally venture into the polluted suds to swim under the border's chain link fence...
...back some $58 billion worth of heavy machinery, appliances and other goods. The $13 billion merchandise balance in Canada's favor was partly offset by an $8.1 billion U.S. trading surplus in such services as insurance and investment. No less than 80% of the trade across the northern U.S. border is already duty free. Trade experts estimate that totally free trade would boost the roughly $416 billion Canadian economy by about 3% to 8% within five to ten years. The $4 trillion U.S. economy would gain proportionately less...