Word: frontier
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...Frontier Airlines the past year has been a struggle. The Denver-based carrier lost $31 million in 1984 and sold almost half its fleet to raise cash. Last week Texas Air Chairman Frank Lorenzo unveiled his plan to solve the airline's woes. Lorenzo, who was outbid for TWA in August by Corporate Raider Carl Icahn, offered $20 a share in a deal that could mean $250 million to Frontier. Said Lorenzo: "It's extremely hard for a small airline to compete...
...Clark and Kay Gable, has inherited his father's interest in racing and nurtured it into a full-time career. Last year, aided by finishing third in the Baja 1,000, he won the off-road racing Rookie of the Year title. And next week Gable will enter the Frontier 500 in Las Vegas, looking for his first win. He has no ambitions to try his luck in the Hollywood fast lane, but is something of a film buff, listing among his favorites such Gable flicks as Test Pilot, The Misfits and San Francisco. "They just don't make them...
...Delta Force is a collection of modern heroes, like the lonely range riders who galloped from town to town to protect the innocent and punish the guilty. For the Delta Force, the modernday righteous sheriff, the hang-em-high brand of frontier justice means criminals can't escape through the maze of over-bureaucratized courts or tangled international relations. Their kind of justice also means that weeping families get a taste of revenge...
...include anyone from German students who deliberately overstay their visas to Haitian boat people who scramble ashore in South Florida, but roughly 60% of the illegals are Hispanics, and about two-thirds of these are Mexicans driven by poverty and unemployment across the highly porous 2,000-mile southern frontier...
Nowhere is that sentiment more dramatically highlighted than along the southern border, where illegal immigration is deeply woven into the local fabric. Some 3,000 U.S. border patrol agents maintain the southern frontier, yet INS officials admit that with bolstered forces the U.S. could significantly reduce the illegal traffic. Despite its length, much of the U.S.-Mexican border is blocked by huge expanses of desert and mountainous terrain. The bulk of illegal traffic centers on only about seven crossings; an estimated 60% of all illegals enter the U.S. near the cities of Chula Vista, Calif., and El Paso, Texas. Says...