Word: frontierment
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...