Word: mexicali
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...novel contract with Mexico's Telmex phone company calls for 1,000 electronic mailboxes in each of three cities: Tijuana, Mexicali and Ensenada. Potentially, Trilogue could service scores of other Mexican urban areas that have the prerequisite pay-phone networks. Farther afield, Comverse is eyeing markets in developing countries from South America to the Far East. The company has links with major distributors like Samsung in Korea and Oki in Japan, as well as Alcatel, the French telecommunications giant, which rang up the Mexican deal...
...Imperial Valley, to save 106,000 acre-feet that seep uselessly into the ground beneath the canal each year. On the one hand, this is an ambitious project in water conservation; on the other, Mexican officials say the loss of seepage will deplete the underground water supply around Mexicali...
...federal Transportation Department said the 11-car train, carrying about 360 people, plunged off a bridge Wednesday morning following torrential rains and fell about 25 feet into the river in northwestern Mexico. The train was bound from the Pacific coastal resort of Mazatlan to Mexicali, on the California border...
...have long sent materials to Mexico duty free for use in assembly plants, then paid duty only on the value added abroad when the products were returned to the U.S. For nearly two decades, these exchanges fostered steady but unspectacular growth in border cities such as Juarez, Tijuana and Mexicali. But the trend accelerated dramatically in 1982, when the Mexican peso lost 82% of its value against the U.S. dollar. Mexican wages fell to irresistibly low levels for U.S. companies facing tough competition from Asia...
...river's problems begin in the boomtown of Mexicali, which since 1970 has more than doubled its size, to an estimated population of 1 million. There, an overburdened sewerage system dumps millions of gallons of raw waste daily into the 30-ft.-wide stream. Other contaminants are added to the stew as the river continues northward, churning through a garbage dump, past cattle feedlots and dairies, and within yards of ramshackle slums. On the edges of town, such classic polluters as food-processing and chemical plants dump ! organic wastes, pesticides, solvents and other chemicals into slime-filled ditches that drain...