Word: rio
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...Sheriff West, like other border sheriffs, patrols a vast area, some 4,500 square miles, with just 12 deputies. There are about 3,000 people in Hudspeth County, 75 percent of them Hispanic with ties on both sides of the "creek," as West calls the often-dry Rio Grande riverbed. But the days when residents went safely back and forth across the county's 90-mile stretch along the Rio Grande are gone, West said...
...Grams). For the Texan and the Mexican, a film about the border patrol struck sparks. "I want to make movies about my country from my point of view," Jones says, "and Arriaga feels that way about his country. You can't spend a lot of time in the Rio Grande Valley without realizing that those countries are the same." The two men's collaboration worked out handsomely: they won the actor and screenplay prizes at Cannes...
...Voter attitudes south of the Rio Grande show mounting popular rejection of the free-market reforms and trade agreements long promoted by Washington, but which are seen by Latin Americans as widening the region's epic gap between rich and poor. But in Bolivia, the vote also threatens to tear the country apart. If no candidate wins more than 50% at the polls, a president must be chosen by Congress, where Morales's Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) will likely have less clout than the parties of his more conservative rivals such as Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga, a former President...
...four years, has created hundreds of jobs locally and in San Diego. Endeavor has had limited success with women. But armed with a plan mapped out with Endeavor's help, Leila Velez, 31, is gaining access to loans that will help her grow her $4 million Rio de Janeiro hair-products company. Velez says Endeavor is redefining entrepreneurship for a new generation. A leading Brazilian dictionary will make that official by adding the Portuguese word for entrepreneurship, empreendedorismo, to its next edition--thanks to Endeavor's work...
Like any good politician, Bush will try to play both sides. True, he's consorting with McCain, and he has a long history on his party's pro-immigrant left--"Family values don't stop at the Rio Grande," Bush has long said, in one of his compassionate-conservative locutions. "[When] you're making 50¢, and you look up north and see the chance to make $50, and your kids are hungry, you're going to come," he told Larry King...