Word: corridors
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Increasingly dependent on one another, the 7 million residents of either side of the boundary have created a cooperative culture that is neither American nor Mexican. It is a hybrid that has latched on to the strengths of both national heritages. The corridor, observes Journalist Tom Miller in his book On the Border, "is a third country with its own identity . . . Its food, its language, its music are its own. Even its economic development is unique...
...with political violence, it raised fresh concerns about the security of U.S. officials. Edward Doster, 20, a former Maryland racetrack stable boy, showed his dependent's pass at State Department headquarters and was allowed to enter without putting his gym bag through metal detectors. Upon reaching the seventh-floor "corridor of power," he went into a men's room and assembled a rifle from the bag's contents. Then he confronted his mother Carole, 44, a secretary in the office of State Department Counselor Edward Derwinski. After an exchange of words, Doster shot and killed her, then himself. Last month...
...least 40 cameramen and reporters were jammed into the narrow corridor outside the Osaka apartment of Kazuo Nagano, 32. Inside, Nagano, the chief suspect in an alleged fraud that had bilked thousands of Japanese investors of $800 million, waited for what seemed to be his inevitable arrest. Suddenly, two men pushed their way through the crowd and announced to two private security guards, "We've been asked to kill him." When the guards refused to let them inside the apartment, the two men first tried to break open the door; when it did not yield, they smashed a small window...
...surprised few oil-industry watchers that Hartley, a man with a reputation for being as blunt and hard driving as a drilling rig, resisted with deep anger and tenacity T. Boone Pickens' attempt to take over his company. Last April, when the two men met in a Washington corridor while waiting to testify about takeovers before the House Ways and Means Committee, Hartley refused to shake his adversary's hand. This was no sporting contest; this...
Former First Ladies do not make a habit of returning to the White House, except, of course, in the tasteful form of a commissioned portrait. So it was that a painting of a soft, almost melancholy Rosalynn Carter, 57, quietly made its debut last week in the ground-floor corridor, where pictures of all the 20th century First Ladies are hung. Though the Carters left Washington in 1980, Rosalynn was too busy to pose for Artist George Augusta until September of last year. But the delay has not hurt. "She is still young, and she left before showing the effects...