Word: rio
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Some places the border is a muddy river, too thin to plow, too thick to drink. Other places it's just a line in the sand. Over the years mapmakers redrew it, wars moved it, nature yanked it all around as the course of the Rio Grande shifted. But what would it take to make it disappear altogether...
...DeLay: The other thing I want to work on is to help Christine in her vision for foster care, foster kids. [Oaks at] Rio Bend [a residence for foster children planned by a DeLay-controlled charity] is not completed yet. We want to complete it, and hopefully it will be a model we can take around the country-around the state and around the country-to show that government can't raise children, that people raise children and we have a way of giving foster children, abused and neglected children a safe, permanent home...
...Christine DeLay: Whether you say this or not, I just want to you to know: We need more press on Rio Bend-the idea; not Tom DeLay. We didn't name it, "Tom and Christine's Little Home for Children." It's "Rio Bend," just like a regular place. [Cites news organization that she said taped at the site for hours, without major stories] You haven't seen THAT, have...
...President stands on the issue is likely to be a deciding factor. Immigration policy was one of the ways in which George W. Bush defined himself in his 2000 campaign as a different kind of Republican, a Texas Governor who believed that "family values don't stop at the Rio Grande." Once he got to the White House, he infuriated some social conservatives by proposing--and appearing to be serious about--an immigration plan that included a guest-worker program. It was an idea he shelved after 9/11, then put forward again as the first policy initiative...
...reason, say critics, is that NAFTA all but sold Mexico?s campesinos up the Rio Grande by failing to challenge lavish U.S. and Canadian agricultural subsidies-the kind that all too often shut Third World farmers out of First World markets. Moreover, free trade has also failed to generate enough U.S. and other foreign investment in new industries and small- and medium-size businesses-and, as a result, hasn't created enough new Mexican jobs. Even when new jobs do appear, the nation?s unforgiving low-wage business culture-the dark shame of Mexico's political and economic leaders, which...