Word: rios
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Judge Carlos Rivera Martinez of the local court set bail at $2 million. Escudero Aponte was transferred to the Rio Piedras State Penitentiary in the San Juan metropolitan area. Arenas ordered him held without bail until Friday and set a hearing for January...
...would draw stares and possibly disrupt business. But at Brazil's BancoMovel (mobile bank), many of the best-dressed people wear mostly suntan lotion. Housed in small red 9-ft. by 5-ft. trailers, two of these automated tellers-on-wheels are stationed in or around beach resorts near Rio and Sao Paulo, providing cash around the clock to customers who may leave home without their clothes but never without their electronic banking cards...
...Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro Bangkok: James Willwerth Peking: Richard Hornik Hong ! Kong: William Stewart, Bing W. Wong Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Yukinori Ishikawa Melbourne: John Dunn Ottawa: Peter Stoler Caribbean: Bernard Diederich Mexico City: John Borrell, John Moody Managua: Laura Lopez Rio de Janeiro: Gavin Scott
Although its name is Spanish for "Big River," the Rio Grande is often more like a stream as it winds for 1,248 miles along the Texas-Mexico border. Each month thousands of Mexicans slip into the U.S. simply by wading across the river, often without getting their knees...
...however, heavy rains and melting snow have turned the Rio Grande into a treacherous torrent with crests of 8 ft. in some normally shallow areas, slowing the flood of illegal immigrants. While U.S. Border Patrol officers in the El Paso sector normally nab some 600 river crossers a day in December, the daily arrest rate fell to 450 last month as fewer Mexicans ventured into the water...