Word: neighbors
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...which the U.S. forced Mexico to cede all its territory north of the Rio Grande. Then, early in this century, Americans' investments gained considerable control over the Mexican economy. Today, Mexico sells to the U.S. two-thirds of its $5 billion in annual exports. From its northern neighbor, Mexico obtains 72% of its $6.4 billion in foreign capital investment and many of its consumer goods. From the north, too, come the tourists, 3.7 million of them, spending about $1 billion a year. Tourism is Mexico's biggest employer, but to many Mexicans, crowds of tourists with their cameras...
...longtime press secretary Hugh Morrow said that only a security aide was present when Rockefeller was stricken at 10:15 p.m. while working on an art book at his office in Rockefeller Center. The phone call that summoned police, said Morrow, had been placed by an "unidentified woman neighbor." It soon turned out that Morrow had his facts wrong...
...exorcised, the work of an angry Allah demanding sacrifice. So he sacrifices. First goes the ancient king who had been his prisoner since the revolution, then an American foreign service officer who tries to bring food supplies across the border from a less doctrinaire socialist, and less impoverished, neighbor. In each case Ellello*u shows a flair for the dramatic--beheading the first, incinerating the second atop a huge pyramid of offered breakfast cereal and potato chips--but little sense of the inevitable. It is only after the drought worsens that Ellello*u begins to suspect that he might...
...Bangkok, Thai Premier Kriangsak Chamanand compared the heavy fighting beyond his border to "a fire in a neighbor's house." This blaze, however, cast menacing shadows throughout all Southeast Asia. The most intense heat was generated by the fact that the principal combatants are both wards of the region's two Socialist superpowers. China has long supported Cambodia with arms and guerrilla training. Peking's technicians have been providing expertise in telecommunications and irrigation, while 49 North Koreans attempted (unsuccessfully, as it turned out) to teach the Kampucheans to fly MiG aircraft...
...neighbor in Camden offers an observation: "Just because your cat's got kittens in the oven don't make them biscuits." And, for outlanders, an amplification: "Both his parents come from Philadelphia. He's not a down Easter. But he's workin...