Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, a vigil had been in progress roughly 50 miles southeast, at the Lebanese-Syrian frontier. U.S. Ambassador to Syria William Eagleton, Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk Shareh and other officials of both nations had gathered at noon on Saturday to greet the hostage convoy. They also waited. And waited...
...miles -- from the Pacific Ocean, across the rugged coastal mountains, the hot sands of the Sonoran Desert, the high plains near El Paso and finally the verdant citrus fields that end at the Gulf of Mexico -- the largely unmarked frontier is as much a link between the U.S. and Mexico as a barrier. The movement across the boundary is massive. Each year there are hundreds of millions of legal crossings. In addition, 1,056,907 undocumented aliens were seized along the border in 1984, almost a 50% increase over ten years ago, and authorities cannot even estimate the number...
...recently been making major deals at Mach 1 speed. In the past two months the company has bought the Pacific routes of Pan American for $750 million and paid $265 million for 30 jets owned by ailing Frontier Airlines. To raise cash for the deals and add to its $1.1 billion cash hoard, UAL worked out a way to sell half of its Westin hotels to investors while retaining management contracts and fees. The company could realize $800 million to $900 million because of increased property values...
...ailing Frontier Airlines decided in May to sell 25 jets, about half its fleet, in order to raise $265 million. -- Major carriers have been forced into a war of so-called Ultimate Super Saver fares, which slash prices on some routes as much...
...overall winner of this year's contest is Dan Cray, 18, of Wofford Heights, Calif., for his national-events entry, "Free Enterprise Reaches the Final Frontier," a 675-word story on the new business of rocketing the ashes of the dead into space. Cray, who graduated from Kern Valley High School in Lake Isabella, Calif., last week, is an aspiring journalist and plans to attend Santa Monica College...