Word: neighborly
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...Dunno," said Mildred, my neighbor. "Seems like Mario Cuomo should be here by now." We met at the town recycling center. She was trying to slip an elderly single-bed mattress past the vigilant fellow who runs the garbage hopper...
Most impressive, in contrast to the U.S., has been the government's overhauling of the national infrastructure. In the 1970s, pressured by the oil embargo and fearful of falling far behind its German neighbor, France decided ( to rebuild its road and rail network, update the telecommunications system and revolutionize its power-generating structure. Those projects alone account for $250 billion in long-term investment...
...time when such halfway measures will no longer suffice is rapidly approaching. For the first time last year, Arizona started taking much of its share of river water for fast-growing Phoenix and Tucson, leaving its larger neighbor to face the possibility of a short supply. Within California, farmers have become alarmed at the possibility that the water they need for irrigation may be diverted to the cities. Says John Pierre Menvielle, a third-generation farmer in Calexico, on the southern edge of the Imperial Valley: "People in Los Angeles and the coastal plain say, 'You guys are wasting water...
MEXICO. The Colorado has long been a prickly subject between the U.S. and its neighbor, and at the moment tempers south of the border are steaming again. The current flash point is Southern California's plan to line with concrete the All-American Canal, which carries water to the 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...
...they live in a consumer society where every day means a struggle, where they have to work very hard in order to lead a decent life, and where everyone has to take care of himself without being able to count on anyone else, a friend or the next-door neighbor...