Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...twelve years Biologist Phil Gruenberg has watched a foul parade float down the New River, a bile-green waterway that slices across the Mexico- California border. While scooping up water samples near the border town of Calexico, Calif., he has seen dead cats and chickens bob past, along with tires, slaughterhouse waste, laundry suds and human feces, and once, a dead man's body. The unseen horrors are, if anything, even more disturbing: the New is saturated with toxic chemicals and teems with disease-causing viruses and bacteria. Warns Imperial County Health Department Officer Dr. Lee Cottrell...
...Government will soon have some new weapons to use against cross-border tax cheating. Starting next year, the State Department will give the IRS the names of all Americans who apply for or renew passports. Meanwhile, the IRS will be adding 25% more auditors, whose primary mission will be to examine the returns of foreign-owned businesses...
...promoting ten different sites for the tunnel and considering a $1 billion bond issue. Says Texas Governor Bill Clements of the SSC: "It could be bigger than NASA." Particle-physics fans are cropping up in the most unlikely places. In Malone, N.Y., a small town near the Canadian border, 800 people turned out to hear physicists lecture about the project...
...Border Patrol has ceded this area to the Mexicans rather than try to police it. Vendors hawk hot dogs and sodas to try to make money off the soon-to-be-Americans. There is a National Enquirer article hanging in the Border Patrol Airport lamenting the fact that the Mexicans have taken over this part of America and "we are powerless to stop...
...asked them how many times they had tried to cross before. Some lied, said they were American citizens living in San Diego. Others admitted this was their third or fourth try. Technically, they were already in American and we were with the Border Patrol just rapping in Spanish with them...