Word: spills
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Thompson may not get his wish--and the spills and explosions are likely to occur farther and farther north of the border. The poorly supervised Mexican trucks already roam a 15-mile zone in southern Texas. On Dec. 18, under provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement, Mexican trucks will gain free access to U.S. highways in border states, just as U.S. trucks will have access to Mexico's northern highways. It's an aspect of NAFTA that is prompting second thoughts. Pro-NAFTA Texas Attorney General Dan Morales warns that unless the Federal Government takes action, there will...
Serious tragedies occur almost weekly. Last September, just north of the border, a Mexican driver was killed when a spark caused by carelessness ignited his tanker filled with jet fuel. Texas officials recently investigated a sulfuric-acid spill in Laredo involving a 16-year-old driver with no insurance and no shipping papers. His rig had faulty brakes; nine of its 18 tires were bald. It is not uncommon to find several Mexican truck drivers carrying insurance cards with the same name and policy number...
...fatally flawed and that the new, pared-down ones will push people to escape poverty. But few who have studied the issue doubt that the transition will be difficult. And those who work in charity expect a new cascade of the homeless, the hungry and the abused to spill out of the government's shrinking safety net and turn to the private sector for help. Sharon Daly, head lobbyist for Catholic Charities USA, predicts that the need for her group "will just about double...
Also, you may want to wear a smock, for undoubtedly someone will spill on you. (Don't get annoyed, you'll do it to someone else later). Yet, it is precisely at this point that you realize how unpleasantly crowded it is and how you wish you had never come...
...said the same thing." Although he loved the movies Menace II Society and Boyz N the Hood, he feels the gangsta film genre may be exhausted: "I don't pay to see 'life in the hood' movies anymore. That story's been told. If someone has something to spill from their heart, God bless 'em, they should...but if someone's just saying, 'Oh I'm gonna keep doing this 'cause it makes money,' I'll be the first person in line to punch that person in the head...